Mechanised

Brigadier Richard Felton, whose six-month tour as commander of 4th Mechanised Brigade is about to end, was speaking to journalists by videolink from his headquarters at Lashkar Gah.

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The Warrior Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicles (MICV) are tracked armoured vehicles designed specifically to carry sections of infantry into battle alongside main battle tanks, providing the infantry support without which tanks cannot operate.

The conspiracy continues Richard 2006

More specifically, we have an army in theatre relying on equipment such as the Challenger Main Battle Tank (MBT) (pictured above, on patrol in Al Amarah, southern Iraq) and the Warrior Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicle (MICV) which were devised as the core weapons of armoured divisions intended to combat a massed Warsaw Pact armoured thrust in northern Europe.

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The Indian contingent comprised of 126 all ranks from the 16 Mechanised Infantry Regiment while the British troops were from the Third Mercian Regiment.

Joint Indo-UK exercise ends 2008

In the former, this had evolved to spawn two main vehicles, the Main Battle Tank (MBT) and the Mechanised Infantry Combat Vehicle (MICV), the first providing the direct firepower, the second providing the infantry support.

Archive 2007-02-01 Richard 2007

FAC troops who now form what has been named the 5th Mechanised

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

"Following the principle to diminish the so-called blunt end of the army while maintaining the operational readiness resulted in the establishment of this formation, 43 Mechanised Brigade," he said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Inaugurating the army's rapid deployment force as 43 Mechanised

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

Mechanised infantry and armoured cars, including Ratels and

ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

CARROLL, R.F. (1985) Mechanised emptying of pit latrines in Africa.

Chapter 6 1992