armored units
Protected military vehicles
Armored units are military formations equipped with tanks and other armored fighting vehicles.
The term belongs to military organization and strategy, distinguishing these heavy mechanized forces from infantry, artillery, or air units: The general committed his armored units to break through enemy lines.
In strategy games, armored units typically represent slow but powerful ground forces.
- tankLarge storage vessel
- main battle tankPrimary armored fighting vehicle
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- engineMachine producing motion
- shellHard outer covering
panzer · track · shock troops · tank battalion · artillery · combined arms · tank destroyer · cannon · reconnaissance missions · hatch · battalion · armored column · treads · mechanized warfare · armored personnel carrier · troop transport · convoy · firepower
- armor warfaretanks, armored vehicles, armored divisions, armored combat, armored warfare
- British Armyregiment, garrison, Gurkhas, SAS, Army Reserve
- cavalrycavalry, cavalryman, cavalry brigade, cavalry charges, cavalry officer
- Polish Militarytanks, submarines, warships, helicopters, fighter jets
- Czechoslovak Militarymobilization, national defense, military strategy, border defenses, officer corps
- militarysoldiers, army, troops, officers, navy
armored unitsinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · light infantry · airborne infantry · guerrilla fighters · irregular forces