Field guide
Every target in the game and what gives it away. Your record fills in as you play.
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How to recognise armoured personnel carriers
- AMPVBradley running gear with six road wheels under a taller, turretless box hull; replaces the M113.
- BoxerEight wheels, very tall box-shaped hull with near-vertical sides.
- BTR-4Eight wheels, high box-shaped hull with the crew cab at the very front, engine in the middle and troop doors at the rear.
- BTR-60Eight-wheeled boat-shaped APC with a long pointed nose and a small conical turret; no side doors, only roof hatches.
- BTR-70Eight-wheeled boat-shaped APC with a small conical turret; a big gap between the second and third axles with a small low exit hatch in it instead of a full side door.
- BTR-80Eight wheels, boat-shaped hull, small conical machine-gun turret, side doors between the second and third axles.
- BTR-82AEight wheels, boat-shaped hull, side doors between the second and third axles, small turret with a long 30 mm cannon.
- M113Simple aluminium box on five road wheels, sloped front plate, flat roof with a cupola and a large rear ramp.
- MT-LBVery low, flat tracked carrier with six road wheels, a small turret at front right and two rear doors.
- NamerA Merkava tank hull without a turret: a high, heavily armoured box with a remote weapon station and a rear ramp.
- Patria AMVEight wheels, long hull with a sloped front glacis, turret mid-hull.
- Patria XA-180 / XA-185Six-wheeled APC with a steep, angular hull and a sloping front; a common sight on UN missions.
- Piranha IIICEight-wheeled APC with a boat-shaped bow and a small turret or weapon station; smaller and lower than the Piranha V.
- Piranha VEight evenly spaced wheels, tall hull with a steep sloped front.
- StrykerEight wheels, boxy hull with angled sides, remote weapon station on the roof, ramp at the rear.
- TPz FuchsSix-wheeled, boat-shaped APC with a pointed nose, large armoured windscreens and two propellers at the rear for swimming.
- VABBoxy wheeled APC with a big angled windscreen and a square, cab-like nose; looks like an armoured truck.
- BvS10 VikingTwo tracked cars joined by an articulated steering unit: the crew rides in the front car, troops in the rear.
- EitanHigh-sided 8x8 with a flat roof, steep slab sides and a remote weapon station with a heavy machine gun.
- Pandur IISix- or eight-wheeled APC with a long, flat-sided hull, a short sloping nose and a weapon station or small turret.
- Patria 6x66x6 with the angular, sloping nose of the Patria AMV, the driver and commander side by side at the front and a rear door; a successor to the XA-180.
- VBMR GriffonTall 6x6 with the engine at the front like a truck, armoured windows in the side doors and the rear, and a remote weapon station on the roof.
