mechanized infantry
Vehicle-borne ground troops
Mechanized infantry are soldiers who travel to battle in armored vehicles rather than on foot, then typically dismount to fight.
The vehicles—usually armored personnel carriers or infantry fighting vehicles—provide protection, mobility, and sometimes fire support.
The mechanized infantry division pushed through enemy lines.
The term distinguishes these units from traditional foot soldiers, motorized infantry (who use unarmored trucks), and cavalry or armor units (who fight from their vehicles).
- squadSmall working group
- turretProtruding fortified structure
- tanksStorage vessels for liquids
- armored vehiclesPlated military transport machines
- dismountGet off something ridden
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- military forcesarmy, allied forces, soldiers, troops, coalition forces
- Armored Forcestanks, armored vehicles, APCs, armored personnel carriers, Bradley
- Cold War militariesSoviet Army, Warsaw Pact, Soviet military, People's Liberation Army, tank divisions
- infantryfoot soldiers, foot soldier, rifleman, riflemen, infantryman
- infantry unitsfoot soldiers, riflemen, platoon, squad, company
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Minimally equipped mobile troops
foot soldiers · airborne infantry · horse cavalry · mounted cavalry · paratroops
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Non-professional armed force
guerrillas · partisan fighters · spearmen · pikemen · line infantry
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Naval infantry soldiers
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