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armored infantry

armored infantry

[′är·mərd ′in·fən·trē]
(ordnance)
A field army unit designed to close and destroy the enemy by fire and maneuver, to repel hostile assault in close combat, and to provide support for tanks.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Bulgariaas Ministry of Defense announced that, on August 5, it had sent formal Requests for Proposals (RFP) to four companies invited to bid to supply armored infantry carriers.
Next, rocket mortars, CM-33 armored infantry fighting vehicles, M109A6 self-propelled guns and M60A3 tanks, and sniper rifles delivered a coup de grSce to the tattered remnants of PLA fores trying to flee the hellish scene.
He saw service in the allied liberation of Kuwait in 1990, serving as the assistant commander of an armored infantry battalion in the 4th Armored Brigade.
Most of the army troops will come from the Royal Tank Regiment Battle Group's Armored Infantry Brigade.
In February of 2014, just six years after Russia invaded Georgia with heavy tanks, the world watched aghast as it brazenly occupied Crimea with light armored infantry. Though relatively few in number, the sudden act of aggression effectively allowed Moscow to seize key terrain on the Black Sea with ominous strategic implications before the West could intervene.
Following the Allied invasion of Europe, Jacques served in France and Germany with the 36th Armored Infantry Regiment.Jacques spent the next five decades of his life working as a psychiatrist for the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.He met his future wife, the late Margaret (Noe) Jacques, while both were working at Grafton State Hospital.
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