armoured personnel

collocation in English

meaningsofarmouredandpersonnel

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armoured
adjective
uk
/ˈɑː.məd/us
/ˈɑːr.mɚd/
protected by a strong covering, or using military vehicles protected by ...
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personnel
noun[U, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɜː.sənˈel/us
/ˌpɝː.sənˈel/
the people who are employed in a company, organization, or one of the ...
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(Definition ofarmouredandpersonnelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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All relevant factors are being considered as part of the review ofarmouredpersonnelcarrier and heavy armoured combat vehicle numbers.
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Thearmouredpersonnelcarrier programme has made considerable strides.
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Orders have been placed for tanks,armouredpersonnelcarriers and wireless equipment and one aircraft carrier, if not more, is to come.
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More than 160 tanks andarmouredpersonnelcarriers, 62 artillery pieces and 136 soft-skinned vehicles have almost certainly been destroyed.
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We may have underestimated the sheer number of tanks andarmouredpersonnelcarriers that they had—largely hidden—during the whole of the campaign.
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A good part of the area was impassable byarmouredpersonnelcarriers.
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We have struck about 600 individual pieces of military equipment, more than half of them tanks, artillery andarmouredpersonnelcarriers.
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This force includes one armoured group of up to two armoured regiments, both light and heavy anti-aircraft units, and infantry inarmouredpersonnelcarriers.
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He wanted to be satisfied as to the provision ofarmouredpersonnelcarriers and spoke about the kangaroos.
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The technology involved in armoured fighting vehicles and inarmouredpersonnelcarriers is of a very different level from that in main battle tanks.
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Apparently, there are some one-ton armoured trucks, but there is not a sufficient supply of them to make units ofarmouredpersonnelcarriers.
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Last year, we had to make a disagreeable decision on the production plans for the newarmouredpersonnelcarrier.
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What is to happen to the plans for the newarmouredpersonnelcarrier?
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A general staff requirement for a replacementarmouredpersonnelcarrier was first formulated in 1972.
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They are still badly in need of modern tanks,armouredpersonnelcarriers, medium artillery, and wireless sets.
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There were ranges of artillery, tanks andarmouredpersonnelcarriers.
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The latter includearmouredpersonnelcarriers and armoured infantry fighting vehicles.
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Why have these factories lost thearmouredpersonnelcarrier contract to private enterprise?
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To move him around the battlefield we shall be getting this year the trackedarmouredpersonnelcarrier.
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This particulararmouredpersonnelcarrier is very much like an ordinary commercial vehicle.
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