armoured combat vehicle

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Noun

armoured combat vehicle (plural armoured combat vehicles)

  1. (British spelling, military) An armed and armoured military vehicle for fighting troops, which runs on wheels or caterpillar track.
    Hypernyms: armoured fighting vehicle, AFV < vehicle
    Coordinate terms: armoured personnel carrier, APC, infantry fighting vehicle, IFV, armoured car, tank
    • [2022 June 16, Ann Wang, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan shows off latest home-made armoured vehicle”, in Robert Birsel, editor, Reuters‎[1], archived from the original on 10 March 2023, World News‎[2]:
      Taiwan’s military showed off its latest domestically produced armoured vehicle on Thursday, the CM-34 Clouded Leopard, at a remote manufacturing site in the mountains of the central part of the island.]
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