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The V-150 is an American amphibious four-wheeled armoured car/armoured personnel carrier. The V-150 carries a crew of three plus two passengers and can be fitted with various armaments including a 25 mm cannon and a 7.62 mm machine-gun. A V-540 V-8 diesel engine provides a top speed of 89 kmh and a range of 645 km.
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The V-300 Commando is an American six-wheeled armoured personnel carrier built by Cadillac as a private venture to complement its 4x4 V-100 and V-150 models. The V-300 carries a crew of three and nine passengers and is armed with a 25 mm Hughes Chain gun and a 7.62 mm coaxial machine-gun. A turbocharged diesel engine provides a top speed of 93 kmh and a range of 700 km.
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VAB is a French wheeled armoured personnel carrier developed during the 1970s to complement the AMX-10P tracked vehicle. The VAB is produced in a 4x4 and a 6x6 version, both being amphibious and fitted with a nuclear, biological and chemical defence system and night-vision capability. The VAB carries a crew of two plus ten passengers and is armed with a 7.62 mm machine-gun. A MAN six-cylinder inline diesel engine provides a top speed of 92 kmh and a range of 1000 km.
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The Valentine was a British infantry tank made by Vickers which first saw action in North Africa during the Second World War. It had 65 mm thick frontal armour and a slow top speed of 15 mph and a range of 145 km. Eleven variant models were made, early ones being armed with the two-pounder gun and later models with the six-pounder gun or American 75 mm gun.
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The Valkiri is a South African self-propelled multiple rocket launcher manned by a crew of two and armed with 24 127 mm rocket-launcher tubes mounted on a 4x4 SAMIL truck chassis. The Valkiri is easily camouflaged to appear like a normal truck, and was used for covert cross-border raids and counter-insurgency operations. The rockets could be fired within ten seconds, and the tubes reloaded in ten minutes. Each rocket has a range of 22 km. The Valkiri is highly mobile with a top speed of 80 kmh and a range of 650 km.
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The Vickers Light Tank was a British light tank based upon the Carden-Lloyd tankette of the 1920s, and produced during the 1930s when they were used for policing the British Empire, and were used at the outbreak of the Second World War. The Vickers Light Tank was manned by a crew of three, armed with one machine-gun - either 7.7 mm calibre or 12.7 mm calibre, and protected by thin armour no more than 15 mm thick which proved totally ineffective during the Second World War. Powered by a Meadows ESTL six-cylinder petrol engine the Vickers Light Tank had a top speed of 51.5 kmh and a range of 200 km.
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The Vickers Medium Mk 2 was Britain's main tank during the 1920's and 1930's, and some were used in North Africa between 1940 and 1941. It carried a crew of five and a 3-pounder MK II gun, and three 0.303 inch calibre Vicker's machine-guns. It's armour was up to 12 mm thick and it had a top speed of 30 mph and a range of 200 km.
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The Vickers Medium Mk III was a British tank developed in 1928 that never left the development stage. The Vickers Medium Mk III was armed with a 3pdr gun with a co-axial .303 inch machine-gun in the main turret and a .303 inch machine-gun in each of two subsidiary turrets located forward and to the sides of the tank. The Vickers Medium Mk III was intended to be manned by a crew of seven but was never produced.
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