armored personnel carrier

American  

noun

1. a tracked military vehicle with a steel or aluminum hull used to transport troops in combat and usually fitted with light armament. APC

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Example Sentences

Already, German tanks and armored personnel carriers, emblazoned with the military’s black Iron Cross insignia, are training in Lithuania’s Rudninkai forest close to the border with Belarus, Russia’s closest ally.

From The Wall Street Journal

Instead, they were shoved into armored personnel carriers and escorted to a military plane that flew them to the Altiplano maximum-security prison, about 50 miles west of Mexico City.

From The Wall Street Journal

They announced their arrival by blaring their truck sirens as their line of armored personnel carriers.

From Los Angeles Times

Reuters reported that Egypt has "sent about 40 tanks and armored personnel carriers to northeastern Sinai within the past two weeks as part of a series of measures to bolster" its border with Gaza.

From Salon

The metal would be cut and strapped as protection to Ukrainian armored personnel carriers defending the embattled town of Avdiivka, around 65 miles away.

From New York Times