Military Cars
Military armoured trains use several types of specialized cars:
- artillery: fielding mixture of guns and machine guns
- infantry: fielding machine guns, designed to carry infantry units
- machine gun: dedicated to machine guns
- anti-air: equipped with anti-air guns
- command: similar to infantry wagons, but designed to be a train command center
- anti-tank: equipped with anti-tank guns, usually in a tank gun turret
- platform: unarmoured, with purposes ranging from transport of ammunition or vehicles, through track repair or derailing protection to railroad ploughs for railroad destruction.
- troop sleepers
- DODX is the reporting mark for the United States Department of Defense Military Traffic Management Command.
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