Cars, Trucks and Quads
Also: BM-21 Grad (ARMA 2, ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead)
Cobra Wheeled Light Armoured Vehicle, Turkey http://www.army-technology.com/projects/cobra/ http://www.amgeneral.com/vehicles/hmmwv/international/details/cobra
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http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,689044,00.html http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,689068,00.html
Yes, they do exist in reality. But they are very specific modified for missions, so there seems not to be a common generic type.The FAV (Fast Attack Vehicle) are similar to sandrail "cars". Examples: none found yet Similar vehicles: DPV: Desert Patrol Vehicles (appeared also in the movie "Three Kings") LSV: in real life there are also so called LSVs: Light Strike Vehicles, I don't know the exact definition differences between them for now.... working on it :)
GAZ 39371 Vodnik In the Battlefield series the Vodnik looks pretty different though, not so flat :).
ITV stands for "internally transportable vehicle", these vehicles are smaller than the typical "Light Armoured Vehicles" in the US army.This vehicles was designed 1999 as the US army needed a vehicle, that could be transported by the V-22 plane.
This is not a fake: the US army really uses some HMMWV in iraq with miniguns attached to them. See this video and hear how fast a minigun shoots in real life (a LOT faster than it looks in video games (like Battlefield or Armed Assault) or movies). This is a very impressive and shocking video.Iraqi insurgents (or better: terrorists) try to kill the soldiers in a patrolling HMMWV. The IED (Improved Explosive Device) was placed below the asphalt. When it explodes, you see that the explosion is strong enough to ruin the street, but luckily it is not big enough, to harm the soldiers in the HMMWV. The camera of a soldier is set directly behind the front window. Anti-Air HMMWVs: A very new system is the Avenger "modification" of the Humvees. It's an anti-UAV/anit-air system. The Avenger is an anti aircraft syste, based on a HMMWV maintained with 8 stinger rockets. Now the US army tested a modified Avenger system: it is a HMMWV that carries a laser with a power of 10 kW (kilo watts).Th ...
These kinds of vehicles can be found in the Battlefield series (in Battlefield Bad Company 2 it is called "CAVJ"). Examples: Wessex Saker LSV (http://www.washingtonbluegray.com/members_vehicles.html) Spider http://www.stengg.com/CoyCapPro/detail.aspx?pdid=127 High Mobility Combat Vehicle MC XR311: http://www.meisterburg.com/xr311.htm Israel's Desert Raider Similar Vehicles: FAV (Fast Attack Vehicle) DPV (Desert Patrol Vehicle)
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Yes, Quads are used in real life by the US army too, not only in games :).
Ural ZU23 (ARMA 2, ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead)Ural 4320
VDV stands for "Vozdushno-Desantnye Voiska" (Russian: Воздушно-десантные войска = ВДВ). Translated this means Air-landing Forces.Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/world_armies/