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
Sd.Kfz. 234
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The Sd.Kfz. 234, was a family of armoured cars designed and built in Germany during World War II. The vehicles were lightly armoured, armed with a 20, 50 or 75 mm main gun, and powered by a Tatra V12
Armored car (military)
…just a machine gun. Heavier vehicles are armed with autocannon or a large caliber gun. The heaviest armored cars, such as the German, World War II era Sd.Kfz. 234 or the modern, US M1128 mobile gun system, mount the same guns that arm medium tanks. Armored cars are popular for peacekeeping or internal security…
Wartime view of a Sd.Kfz. 234/2
Two types of the heavily armed reconnaissance vehicles are seen in this 1944 photograph, the turreted Sd.Kfz 234/2 in the foreground and behind it—the open-topped Sd.Kfz 234/3 armed with a short-barrel howitzer.
Tatra 103 engine, Panzermuseum Munster, Germany
5 cm KwK 39/1 used in a Sd.Kfz. 234/2, Panzermuseum Munster