To safely capture up-close film footage of tornadoes, some project participants traveled in a seven-ton, armored tornado intercept vehicle directly into tornadoes as they formed.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

This is a guy, he's armored up; he's ready to go.

这个男人,全副武装,准备出发

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The Germans,by a remarkable combination of air bombing and heavily armored tanks, have broken through the French defenses north of the Maginot Line, and strong columns of their armored vehicles are ravaging the open country, which for the first day or two was without defenders.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

The 30-ton vehicle is nimble enough for rough terrain and sufficiently armored to deflect all but the biggest bombs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

So,the military created a new armored vehicle, a sort of cross between a Humvee and a tank, and called it the MRAP, the Mine-Resistant Ambush Protect vehicle.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

"The tires are larger than you would find on a HUMVEE, so the ground pressure, which is really what matters, isn't all that much different from an up-armored HUMVEE,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

Then a helicopter fired missiles at several Lebanese armored vehicles.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

"This is really designed to get us off the road network, to be able to go cross-country, to go the places that up-armored HUMVEEs go, not be stuck to the road network, which makes us predictable,".

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

General Brogan says because of some technical innovations M-ATVs are not nearly as cumbersome as MRAPs, but rather are almost as maneuverable as the much lighter and more lightly armored Humvees, even in the sands of Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02