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The basic APC design was substantially expanded to an Infantry fighting vehicle ( IFV ) when properties of an armoured personnel carrier and a light tank were combined in one vehicle.
For example, armoured personnel carriers were generally replaced by infantry fighting vehicles in a very similar role, but the latter has some capabilities lacking in the former.
An infantry fighting vehicle ( IFV ) is an armoured personnel carrier which can provide significant fire support.
For the Indonesian-made military vehicle, see Anoa ( armoured personnel carrier ).
Fourteen others were wounded, 12 by shots from the soldiers and two knocked down by armoured personnel carriers.
These ships carry equipment and supplies to support a major armed force with tanks, armoured personnel carriers, munitions, fuel, spare parts and even a mobile field hospital.
IFVs are similar to armoured personnel carriers ( APCs ), designed to transport a section or squad of infantry ( generally between five and ten men ) and their equipment.
It is planned to buy new armoured personnel carriers / Infantry fighting vehicles.
Using two hundred riot vans, three Leopard MBTs, three armoured personnel carriers, a helicopter, twelve hundred policemen, and seven hundred fifty members of the armed forces, they evicted the squatters and demolished the block, while clouding the entire area in teargas and CS gas.
The equipment of the Peruvian Army includes several types of tanks ( T-55 and AMX-13 ), armoured personnel carriers ( M-113, UR-416 ), artillery ( D30, M101, M109 and M114 howitzers ), antiaircraft systems ( ZSU-23-4 Shilka ) and helicopters ( Mil Mi-2, Mil Mi-17 ).
A weapon ahead of its time was the Hafdasa C-2 machine pistol issued to armoured vehicle personnel which would be today classed as a Personal Defense Weapon.
Sure enough, Fergus cannot bring himself to shoot the fleeing Jody in the back, but Jody is instead accidentally run over and killed by British armoured personnel carriers as they suddenly move in to assault the IRA safehouse.
As the war progressed the rebels managed to acquire heavy weapons including T-55 tank's and armoured personnel carriers captured from Macedonian government forces.
The brothers were assassinated together in the back of an armoured personnel carrier with a bayonet and revolver by Captain Nguyễn Văn Nhung, under orders from Dương Văn Minh, while en route to the Vietnamese Joint General Staff headquarters.
In 1970, the International Institute for Strategic Studies assessed the Ugandan armed forces to consist of 6, 700 personnel, constituting an Army of 6, 250 with two brigade groups, each of two battalions, plus an independent infantry battalion, with some Ferret armoured cars, and BTR-40 and BTR-152 armoured personnel carriers, plus an air arm of 450 with 12 Fouga Magister armed jet trainers, and seven MiG-15s and MiG-17s.
In the earliest drafts of " The Fall of Gondolin ", the Lost Tale that is the basis for The Silmarillion, Morgoth ( here called Melkor ) sends mechanical war machines in the form of dragons against the city ; some even serve as armoured personnel carriers for Orcs.
* GAZ-40-BTR-40 armoured personnel carrier ( 1950 – 1960 )
Diem's dead body in the back of an armoured personnel carrier
Nhu and Diệm fled to the nearby Catholic Church of St. Francis Xavier, where they were taken into custody and put into an armoured personnel carrier, to be taken back to military headquarters.
New Zealand armoured personnel carriers of UNTAET at the Gate Pa base in the southern Suai area, 2002
* BOV ( APC )-An Yugoslavian wheeled armoured personnel carrier.

armoured and carrier
This allows the tank to be used as a platform for medical disembarkation, a forward command and control station, and an armoured personnel carrier.
* Armoured personnel carrier, an armoured fighting vehicle
After a 90 minute standoff a French UNPROFOR officer opened the door to the armoured personnel carrier in which Turajlić was sitting and a Serb soldier killed him with an AK-47.
They wore French uniforms, flak jackets and helmets, were armed with French weapons and drove a French armoured personnel carrier ( APC )-all stolen from UN troops detained outside the city.
A mine roller or mine trawl is a demining device mounted on a tank or armoured personnel carrier, designed to detonate anti-tank mines.
* On 5 April 2003, US ISM volunteer Brian Avery was shot in the face and permanently disfigured by machine gun fire from an IDF armoured personnel carrier while he was escorting Palestinian medical personnel in the street.
* BT-43: Finnish armoured personnel carrier ; captured BT-7s equipped with troop accommodation.
The Saracen armoured personnel carrier had the engine in front with the driver in the centre and space for a ' few ' troops in the rear.
When self-propelled artillery, the armoured personnel carrier, the wheeled cargo vehicle, and supporting aviation — all with adequate communications — were combined to constitute the modern armored division, commanders regained the capability of maneuver.
A few, such as the British 120mm L4 MoBAT and L6 Wombat could only practically be transported by jeep or truck, or mounted on an armoured personnel carrier.
A demonstration was conducted in September 1999 that showed the missile being used against an FV432 armoured personnel carrier, showing the missile's effectiveness as surface-to-surface weapon.
* Rhino APC was a land mine-protected armoured personnel carrier used in South Africa
* FV103 Spartan, British armoured personnel carrier
In 1978, Institute 111 from Romania designed an armoured personnel carrier based on the SU-76 chassis, equipped with the TAB-71 turret.
* Kangaroo armoured personnel carrier
They were also at this time building the versatile GKN developed GKN FV432 armoured personnel carrier, which would continue in production long after the disappearance of the Triumph Herald and its ill-starred manufacturer, BLMC.

armoured and APC
The IISS reported 218 armoured cars ( 6 AML-90, 60 BRDM-1 / 2, 80 Ferret, 20 Rakhsh APC and 30 Alvis Saladin ) in 2007, alongside 15 BMP-2.
Designs exist for different APC vehicles ( armoured personnel carrier ) and IFV versions ( infantry fighting vehicle ), communications versions, ambulances and different fire support versions, armed with large caliber mortar and gun systems.
* Wiesel 2 APC: 2 + 4 crew armoured personnel carrier
With the help of armoured personnel carriers of 3 Troop, 1 APC Squadron hit the flank of a battalion size force which was forming up to assault the rear of D Company, inflicted many casualties and forced the enemy from the battlefield.
Meanwhile, A Company was dispatched mounted in M113 armoured personnel carriers ( APCs ) from 3 Troop, 1st APC Squadron.
Other units included the 1st APC Squadron equipped with M113 armoured personnel carriers, the 1st Field Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery consisting of two Australian and one New Zealand battery each equipped with 105 mm L5 Pack Howitzers, the 3rd SAS Squadron, the 1st Field Squadron and 21st Engineer Support Troop, the 161st Reconnaissance Flight operating Cessna 180s and Bell H-13 Sioux light observation helicopters, and a detachment of the 1st Division Intelligence Unit.
These reports were followed up by the armoured personnel carriers from 1st APC Squadron.
First designed by Alvis in the 1960s, the CVR ( T ) family includes Scorpion and Scimitar light reconnaissance tanks, Spartan armoured personnel carriers ( APC ) s, Sultan command and control vehicle, Samaritan armoured ambulance, Striker anti – tank guided missile vehicle and Samson armoured recovery vehicle.
The FV103 Spartan was developed during the 1970s as the Armoured Personnel Carrier ( APC ) version of the British Army's Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance ( Tracked ) ( CRV ( T )) family of armoured fighting vehicles, designed by Alvis plc.
In particular, there are no firing ports in the hull, in line with British thinking that the role of the armoured personnel carrier / infantry fighting vehicle ( APC / IFV ) is to carry troops under protection to the objective and then give firepower support when they have disembarked.
An armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) version was also developed, the Panhard M3.
The Norwegian Model-142 is an anti-tank variant of the American M-113 armoured personnel carrier ( APC ), the difference being that it is equipped with a TOW2 turret, developed in Norway by Kværner Eureka.
The appearance of the German HS. 30 APC, armed with a 20 mm cannon prompted the addition of the conical in shape BPU-1 turret, originally developed for BRDM-2 amphibious armoured scout car, armed with the KPVT 14. 5 mm heavy machine gun and PKT 7. 62 mm tank machine gun.
* Condor ( APC ), a German armoured personnel carrier, best known for its use by Malaysian forces
The Mark IX tank was a British armoured fighting vehicle from the First World War, the world's first specialised Armoured Personnel Carrier ( APC ).
The Type 77 amphibious APC was the standard armoured transport for the marines for many decades.
The was an armored half-track armoured personnel carrier ( APC ) used in limited numbers by the Imperial Japanese Army ( IJA ) during World War II.
A Kangaroo was a World War II Commonwealth or British armoured personnel carrier ( APC ), created by conversion of a tank chassis.

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