Britain is sending new equipment to support its troops, helicopters, armored vehicles, aerial surveillance drones and special bomb-disposal personnel.
Iraqi army tanks, armored personal carriers and other military vehicles lined the streets, as police and soldiers were deployed in force to scare away troublemakers.
When the door is closed, one can hear typical hollow thud of armor. When you drive in the “Tiger”, you do feel that you are inside an armored vehicle.
It is a black six-limbed panther from Hell, the size of a tractor trailer, with an armored head, a venomous striking tail, and massive distensible armored jaws.
The king was thinking of sending an armored brigade into Syria.
BOOM!! Josh whips around to see the head of a hideous armored fish, its huge jaws snapping shut, clacking razor-sharp teeth against the glass.
The whole idea of the German Blitzkrieg tactic was to concentrate massive armored forces, and massive close air support, to create an unstoppable rapidly moving "armor fist" that could smash through anything and cause havoc and chaos in the enemy's side, regardless of the enemy's total force.
French armored vehicles had been seen advancing on the residence ahead of Mr. Gbagbo's capture.
At dusk Friday, two light armored vehicles drove toward the house, with armed police crouching behind them for cover, an eyewitness told National Radio.
Typically, defense contractors crank out just a few hundred armored vehicles a year.
Meanwhile, a British newspaper says the head of the country's elite special forces in Afghanistan has abruptly resigned because of a lack of armored vehicles for his troops.
He called them mugrosos (slimeballs) and cockroaches, and chased their armored convoys through the streets.
Thailand has received the first of 96 Ukrainian armored personnel carriers ($125 million), with the first of six Swedish fighter jets and two other aircraft ($574 million) arriving in early 2011.
Russian state television broadcast footage of a column of Russian army trucks and armored vehicles driving through Sukhumi, Abkhazia 's main city.
They drove in SUVs, not in big armored vehicles.
Defense officials at the Pentagon said the Apaches encountered heavy groundfire during their assault on the Medina armored division.
It was a small town and every day after work the driver took the armored car home with him.
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