Infantry fighting vehicle
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An infantry fighting vehicle, also known as a mechanized infantry combat vehicle, is a type of armoured fighting vehicle designed both to transport infantry into battle and to provide direct fire supp
A Polish BWP Borsuk amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle, armed with 30mm Mk44S Bushmaster II autocannon.
A Russian BMP-3, armed with a 2A70 100 mm low-pressure rifled cannon, with embarked infantry. The gun is capable of launching the high-explosive fragmentation projectiles, as well as the 9M117 Bastion gun-launched anti-tank guided missiles.
West German troops aboard a Schützenpanzer Lang HS.30, the world's first well-known IFV. (1965)
An East German BMP-1 with eight passengers (1988)
Mechanized infantry
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Mechanized infantry are infantry units equipped with armored personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles for transport and combat.
U.S. Army mechanized infantry dismount from an M113 armored personnel carrier during training in 1985.
German A7V tanks in Roye, Somme during Operation Michael of World War I in 1918
U.S. M3 half-tracks and infantry on exercises, Fort Knox, June 1942
Swiss Armed Forces Panzer 61 and SPz 63/73 armored vehicles deploying mounted infantry in 1979