Armoured Cars.

A 1914 newspaper clipping depicting Belgian officers hunting German cavalry for sport from the safety of their armored car

They were not.. until the arrival of the Stryker much later. I served in both heavy and light Cav and the TOE's varyed (depending on the unit structure.. regimental versus divisional) from being equipped with M113/114 APC's and M60A1-3/M1-A1 Tanks or M551 Sheridans to M901 ITV/113's and eventually variants with HMMWV's with 50cals and Mk40 grenade launcers etc and TOW's.

Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 08-Sep-2011 at 18:43

A modified version of that would be useful on the southern US frontier for drug interdiction use. Then again the Lynx Mk1 would probably do as well.

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Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 06-Sep-2011 at 01:17

Eve of Destruction, the last gun truck of the Vietnam War. Long before the "hillbilly armor" of the Iraq War US troops had to improvise an escort for their supply convoys in jungle crawling with Vietcong. Eve's weapons included six .50 cal machine guns and a grenade launcher: a big improvement over the lightly armed Jeeps previously used

The Grizzly is an experimental armored car designed to withstand roadside bombs. Unfortunately the US army insists on using the Hummer in Iraq, preferring to gamble with mens lives rather than invest in a replacement

This appears to be the missing link between armored cars and tanks. It's a 1927 Vickers-Wolseley which could run on either tracks or wheels

Originally posted by Nick1986 Many French P107 artillery tractors fell into Nazi hands following the fall of France. The wooden body was replaced with armor plate and the halftrack was adapted for new roles: some were converted into APCs and armed with machine guns and others were fitted with anti aircraft guns

I guess that on this picture they are going backward, because it doesnt look like they could have passed this ditch from the front of car....

Here is the main Russian armored car of the Polish-Soviet War. The Austin-Putilov was originally supplied to the Tsarist army but many ended up in Communist hands. The roller on the front enabled it to cross trenches and the caterpillar tracks prevented it sinking into the melting snow

This improvised armored car was built by the French resistance in 1944 and used during the siege of La Rochelle. Similar vehicles, utilising the chassis of trucks, were used during the Norwegian and Polish uprisings