Armored car (military)
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A military armored car is a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed escort, and other subordinate battlefield tasks. With the gradual decl
U.S. T17E1 Staghound armoured car of World War II
NMSS 4x4 Yörük, a modern armoured car of the Turkish Land Forces.
F.R. Simms' Motor Scout, built in 1898 as an armed car
F.R. Simms' 1902 Motor War Car, the first armored car to be built
M8 Greyhound
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The M8 light armored car is a 6×6 armored car produced by the Ford Motor Company during World War II. It was used from 1943 by United States and British forces in Europe and the Pacific until the end
Armored car (military)
…BA-64 was influenced by a captured Leichter Panzerspähwagen before it was first tested in January 1942. In the second half of the war, the American M8 Greyhound and the British Daimler Armoured Cars featured turrets mounting light guns (40 mm or less). As with other wartime armored cars, their reconnaissance…
M8 Greyhound at the U.S. Army Armor & Cavalry Collection, Fort Benning, Georgia, 2023
Radio inside an M8
The telescopic sight used to aim the main 37 mm gun
Shells for the main 37 mm gun were stored on racks inside the turret. The barrel of an M1 carbine, carried for close-in vehicular defense, is visible at left.