Grnd-72 Land Force Recognition

Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV)

A combat vehicle protected by armour and armed with weapons.

Classified according to role.

AFV Roles

Main Battle Tanks (MBT)

Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC)

Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV)

Reconnaissance Vehicles (RV)

Main Battle Tank

an all terrain AFV designed primarily to engage enemy forces by the use of direct fire n the frontal assault role.

Armoured Personnel Carriers

intended to carry infantry quickly and relatively safely to point where they are deployed.

Infantry Fighting Vehicle

an armoured personnel carrier which can provide significant fire support.

Reconnaissance vehicles

also known as a scout vehicle, is a military vehicle used for forward reconnaissance.

Parts of an AFV

H - Hull

A - Armament

T - Turret

S - Suspension

Ways to describe a hull

Size

Shape

Front Shape & Glacis Plate

Hatches

Exhaust

Miscellaneous Equipment

Miscellaneous Hull Equipment

Mounted Equipment

Bins or Storage Containers

External Fuel Tanks

Armoured skirting (for suspension)

Foot steps

Describe Suspension

Tracked Suspension

Tight Track or Loose Track

Drive Sprockets and Idler wheels

Road Wheels

Wheeled Suspension

Number of Axles / wheels

Size and Spacing of wheels

Describe a turret

Armoured

Rotates

Armed with: Machine guns, Automatic Cannon, Large Calibre Guns, Missile launchers

Manned or remote

A small turret, or sub-turret on a larger one, is called a cupola.

Turret positions

Forward

Centre

Rear

Describe Armament

Main Guns

Automatic Cannons

Multi-Barrel Grenade Dischargers (MBGD’s)

Anti-Tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs)

Machine Guns: Co-axial, Pintle mounted, Cupola mounted

Pintle Mount

a fixed mount that allows the gun to be freely traversed and/or elevated whilst keeping the gun in one fixed position.

Bore evacuator

Helps prevent poisonous propellant gases from venting back into the vehicle's fighting compartment when the gun breech is opened to load another round.

Thermal sleeve

Prevents the gun barrel from being thermally distorted due to environmental conditions, especially when the barrel is already hot due to frequent firing.

Muzzle Reference System

Measures thermal distortion (droop & bend) in the barrel so that the ballistic computer can make a correction.

4 basic hull front shapes

V-shaped

Straight Form

Curved

Wedge Shaped

V-Shaped hull

Straight form hull

Curved hull

Wedge shaped hull

Turret shapes

Round

Round (turtle shaped)

Turret with vertical plate

Turret with sloped plate

Wedge shaped

Conical

Oscillating turret

Turret with vertical plate

Turret with sloped plate

Round turret

Round Turret (turtle shaped)

Wedge shaped turret

Oscillating turret

Conical turret