Armoured Vehicles....?

Question

Sad, i know, but i have an interest in Armoured Vehicles and know ALOT about them.
If any of you have a "Favorite" Armoured Vehicle (Tank, APC, Recce Vehicle, AA, Arty, variant, ETC ETC) then i'd like to hear which is your Favorite and why... and maybe a little of what you know about it.... Country, Role, something special about it.

Not a common question, but therefore, if you know anything....... more chance you'll get the 10 points.... x

does anyone know much about the CIS vehicles?, or any that arnt British / American?

Answer 1

The Swedish S tank - its so quirky, looks like it means business, but whoever thought of designing a tank with a gun that doesn't move?

Answer 2

Armored vehicles are legal for the same reason body armor is legal- it's more commonly used by the good guys. Ok, now time for a little reality check- 1- Armored cars are not bullet PROOF, they are bullet RESISTANT. They are designed to help you survive the initial surprise attack and give you an extra 10-15 seconds to escape that you wouldn't have in an unarmored vehicle. Every bullet that hits causes damage to the armor and will eventually breach it. While steel armored plates are likely to resist penetration by anything below an armor piercing round or a 0.50 cal, most of the vehicle is not armored with steel to keep the weight down. Many transparent armors are simply glass and polycarbonate film and may breach after only 15 rounds, or less. There was a VIP years ago who simply stayed put and hid while his armored vehicle was under attack, unfortunately for him the armor was breached and he was killed. This is not James Bond where the bullets bounce off without even scratching the paint. Even a MILITARY vehicle's armor will breach given enough time when confronted with the correct weaponry. 2- The window is down so anyone behind it is vulnerable. Someone will get a shot off. Also most police departments now have rifles such as the AR-15, M-16, Remmington 700, etc available for use. These are very accurate weapons that could easily target someone shooting a building from inside a vehicle. Also a shotgun firing 3" slugs would make quick work of the vehicle's windows, armored or not. 3- Price, most armored vehicles at the levels you're proposing START at $250,000 and go up to over $1,000,000+. 4- Small community, armoring a vehicle is not an everyday job that any mechanic can do on a weekend. It has to be done by a handfull of specialty companies and takes time, on the order of months to complete. 5- Available room, most of the weaponry capable of succesfuly acheiving results in a scenario like this are bulky and would need special mounts & other equipment inside the vehicle that would give anyone up-armoring the vehicle pause. Even if you where to use select fire rifles you'd have problems since they genarally only hold 30-rounds/ magazine. That's about 2-3 seconds worth of fire. 6- Number of people involved. One person acting alone is not likely to pull something like this off. The more people involved, the greater the chance of a leak to law enforcement. An attack like the one you are proposing is not likely to happen, and if it did, is not likely to be succesful. - David

Answer 3

Land rovers. I was once taken to I think it was Leamington Spa to a Defence departments recycling military vehicles which has since been closed down I understand. - Jobs lost etc.. They were recycling destroyed land rovers from places like Northern Ireland. My brother loves land rovers and is an agricultural engineer. The chaps at this place were literally throwing all that is a land rover away on scrap heaps after removing the armoured parts of the vehicles. I would have taken one for my brother if I could, he can not afford such a glorious machine on his salary. What a waste of everything, lives, happiness, challenges, skill, everything except armoured plating. Big sigh !
I don't know why; I am not an engineer, but I can tell that there is not a silicon ship in the vehicle, all the marvellous and variant things it can achieve are all due to the excellent engineering. You see land rovers everywhere doing anything.
Even the vain amongst those of us that qualify as would be multi millionaires drive special pink versions with patterned seat coverings and silicon chip la di da all over the place up and down the motorways. I suppose the sale of the Range rovers kept specialist engineers and mechanics employed a little longer than they would otherwise be. Problem is in a market economy, most of us could not afford to buy one.
Never mind when we are all extinct I am sure the surface of the planet will be covered in unwanted Land rovers.

Answer 4

Got to be the AS-90 self-propelled gun. Biggest bloomin thing on tracks i have seen in a while.

The AS90 Braveheart is a 155mm self-propelled howitzer which entered service with the British Army in 1992. It is manufactured by BAE Systems Land Systems (RO Defence and formerly the Armaments Division of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd) at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. 179 have been built for the British Army. The AS90 was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003.

In July 2004, the UK Ministry of Defence announced plans to reduce the number of AS90 artillery batteries by six. Three batteries will be drawn down and one AS90 regiment of three batteries will be re-roled to a light gun regiment, to support a new light brigade. The changes are to be effected by March 2007.

As of June 2005, 146 AS90 howitzers were in service with the British Army.

An enhanced version of the Howitzer, the Desert AS90, has been built to provide high capability in arduous desert conditions. The Desert AS90 underwent successful trials in the Arizona Desert in 1994 and in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1996. This version, with the 52 calibre barrel is called the AS90 Braveheart.

BAE Systems signed a license manufacturing agreement with HSW (Huta Stalowa Wola) of Poland for the production of the AS90 Braveheart. Two AS90 turrets were fitted to vehicles built by OBRUM of Poland.

The crew consists of the driver plus four or three operators in the cupola, a commander, a gun layer and an ammunition loader.

If you have these things on your side then aint nobody gonna mess.

Love it...

Answer 5

Challenger II. As used by the best army in the world.

Just noticed you wanted to know something special about them. The Chobham armour plating. Better than anything out there.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

See if the same armored platting put on Chaney's Vehicle, is put on the one of are troops in Iraq. No problem with the 10 points.

Answer 8

I have an armoured 7 Series BMW ! its got buttet proof glass!

Hardly every use it and only bought it because i was a little paranois after winning the Lottery! (and because David Beckham has one)

its special order from BMW only about 5 or 6 in the country!

Answer 9

The Humvee of the US army. it is because it is versatile