Armadillo armoured fighting vehicle
The Armadillo was an extemporized improvised armoured fighting vehicle produced in Britain during the invasion crisis of 1940–1941. Based on a number of standard lorry (truck) chassis, it comprised a wooden fighting compartment protected by a layer of gravel and a driver's cab protected by mild steel plates. Armadillos were used by the RAF Regiment to protect aerodromes and by the Home Guard.
Bedford OYD Armadillo Mk I
Mk I Armadillos on the Wolverton production line
Improvised fighting vehicle
An improvised fighting vehicle is an ad hoc combat vehicle resulting from modified or upgraded civilian or military non-combat vehicle, often constructed and employed by civilian insurgents, terrorists, rebels, mobsters, guerrillas, partisans, drug cartels, criminal organizations or other forms of non-state militias and irregular armies. Such modifications usually consist of grafting improvised armour plating and fixed crew-served weapons such as heavy machine guns or antiaircraft autocannons mounted onto the back of a utility vehicle or pickup truck.
A technical armed with a ZU-23 autocannon operated by the Free Syrian Army during battles against Islamic State in the eastern Qalamoun Mountains, southern Syria, 2017
Piłsudski's Tank improvised armoured car in 1919.
'L' Detachment SAS in their armed jeeps
The original Kubuś car at the Polish Army Museum