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Armored cars are typically manufactured with bulletproof glass and layers of armor plating, often with a variety of other defensive mechanisms and features to aid the individuals inside. Unlike military armored vehicles, a civilian armored car is designed to be inconspicuous and similar to its factory version.
[needs update] The new vehicle will gradually replace the RG-31 Nyala MRAP vehicle and Coyote armoured cars, which are currently in service with the Canadian Army. [5] [6] Textron Systems Canada Inc., a Textron Inc. company, announced August 19, 2016, the delivery of the first TAPV to the Canadian Army.
Metro Nashville Police SWAT vehicles. From left to right: Cadillac Gage Ranger, Lenco BearCat, MD 500 helicopter, tactical operations center step van A SWAT vehicle, police armored vehicle, or police rescue vehicle is a non-military armored vehicle used by police tactical units to respond to incidents.
76 mm gun motor carriage M18 Hellcat (76 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) 90 mm gun motor carriage M36 Jackson (90 mm gun motor carriage; full-track) Landing Vehicle Tracked (armored) (LVT(A))1/2/4/5 (amphibious full-track) 81 mm mortar carrier M4/A1; M21 mortar carrier; T19 howitzer motor carriage; T30 howitzer motor carriage
The British Fox CVR(W) was built largely of aluminium.. Aluminium is used when light weight is a necessity. It is most commonly used on APCs and armoured cars.While certainly not the strongest metal, it is cheap, lightweight, and tough enough that it can serve as easy armour.
U.S. Army National Guard M1117 armored security vehicles at Fort Stewart, Georgia in June 2010.. The vehicle (originally the ASV-150) is a purpose-built 21st-century version of Cadillac Gage's V-100 Commando family of Armored fighting vehicles which was used by the U.S. Army Military Police during the Vietnam War; [4] whose duties often consisted of providing armed escort for wheeled convoys.
The Cadillac Gage Commando, frequently denoted as the M706 in U.S. military service, [7] is an American armored car designed to be amphibious. [6] It was engineered by Cadillac Gage specifically for the United States Military Police Corps during the Vietnam War as an armed convoy escort vehicle. [7]
The Eagle II was developed to take into account the changes wanted by the Swiss Army for the second batch of armoured reconnaissance vehicle it needed. It uses a different chassis and running gear, the one of the Humvee ECV, but all the equipment is the same as for the Swiss Eagle I.