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During the Cold War, more specialized APCs were developed. The United States introduced a series of them, including successors to the wartime Landing Vehicle Tracked. The most numerous was the M113 armored personnel carrier, of which more than 80,000 were produced. [3]
Other turrets were tried as were various gun shields, the main design of which was similar to the gun shield used on the U.S. M113 ACAV version. In addition, the Australians operated an M113 variant fitted with a Saladin armored car turret, with a 76 mm gun as a fire support vehicle, or FSV, for infantry fire support. This has now also been ...
Top-shot of a Type 63 APC (A531) at the Beijing Military Museum. The Type 63 (industrial designation YW531) is a Chinese armoured personnel carrier that entered service in the late 1960s. It was the first armoured vehicle designed in China without Soviet assistance. [1] The design is simple and is comparable to other APCs of its time such as ...
The Soviet Army fielded its first tracked APC, the BTR-50, in 1957. [7] Its first wheeled APC, the BTR-152, had been designed as early as the late 1940s. [7] Early versions of both these lightly armored vehicles were open-topped and carried only general-purpose machine guns for armament. [6]
United States made Cougar HE MRAPV being tested in January 2007 with landmines Russian Ural-63095 Typhoon MRAPV. Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAPV), also known as MRAP Vehicle, is a type of armoured personnel carrier that are designed specifically to withstand land mines, improvised explosive device (IED) attacks and ambushes to save troops' lives.
These improvements were associated with changes in the gut microbiome, the community of trillions of bacteria in the digestive system. These bacteria are essential for metabolism, immune health ...
Bobcat prototype at Base Borden Military Museum. The Bobcat was an armored personnel carrier (APC) designed and built in Canada in the 1950s and early 1960s. A lengthy development period and changing requirements drove the price up while not improving the basic design, and the project was eventually cancelled in late 1963 in favor of purchasing the ubiquitous M113.
Armored vehicles meant infantry were capable of overcoming water barriers and having means of protection against Weapons of Mass Destruction. The US Army established the basic configuration of the tracked APC with the M75 and M59 before it adopted the lighter M113, which could be carried by Lockheed C-130 Hercules and other transport aircraft ...