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A Zhongxing Grand Tiger technical with a mounted FN MAG during the First Libyan Civil War. A technical, known as a non-standard tactical vehicle (NSTV) in United States military parlance, is a light improvised fighting vehicle, typically an open-backed civilian pickup truck or four-wheel drive vehicle modified to mount SALWs and heavy weaponry, such as a machine gun, automatic grenade launcher ...
Non-military armoured vehicles (or paramilitary armoured vehicles if used by a paramilitary) are armoured vehicles used outside professional armed forces. While primarily invented and used for defense/internal conflicts from an equally well armed organized force, armour technology has found a number of other uses outside of this military context.
The MGV vehicles were conceived to be exceptionally lightweight (initially capped at 18 tons base weight) to meet the Army's intra-theatre air mobility requirements. The vehicles that the Army sought to replace with the MGVs ranged from 30 to 70 tons. In order to reduce weight, the Army substituted armor with passive and active protection systems.
A Safeguards Transporter (SGT) is a truck developed for and used by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a semi-autonomous affiliate agency of the United States Department of Energy, for the ground transport of nuclear weapons in the contiguous United States.
Non-road engines (or non-road mobile machinery in the European union) are internal combustion engines that are used for other purposes than a motor vehicle that is used on a public roadway. [1] The term is commonly used by regulators to classify the engines in order to control their emissions .
The Pursuit Special, also referred to as the Last of the V8 Interceptors, is a modified Ford Falcon muscle car prominently featured in much of the Mad Max franchise and driven by the titular character, where it appears in Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the canon comic book prequel, as well as both video games.