Historical Examples
Historical precursor to armoured fighting vehicles that predates World War I. There is likely to have been numerous equivalent examples of AFV's throughout the history of warfare. By any reasonable technical definition, an AFV is by nature, any vehicle designed to move troops to or around the battlefield, while protecting them from enemy attack, that also allows attacks on the enemy to be prosecuted from within said vehicle.
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