Successful designs are often adapted to a wide variety of applications. For example, relatively lightly armed armoured personnel carriers were largely superseded by infantry fighting vehicles with much heavier armament in a similar role. The classifications are not absolute two countries may classify the same vehicle differently, and the criteria change over time.
Examples of AFVs are tanks, armoured cars, assault guns, self-propelled guns, infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), and armoured personnel carriers (APC).Īrmoured fighting vehicles are classified according to their characteristics and intended role on the battlefield. An armoured fighting vehicle ( British English) or armored fighting vehicle ( American English) ( AFV) is an armed combat vehicle protected by armour, generally combining operational mobility with offensive and defensive capabilities.
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