Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFV)
The Infantry Fighting Vehicle was developed to fight alongside supporting infantry and counter other armored vehicles in the war zone.
There are a total of 87 Infantry Fighting Vehicles in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below by initial year of service. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
2015
The Abhay is currently serving as a developmental vehicle program designed to test out various technologies, mechanics and we...
2013
The German Army is currently evaluating the Schutzenpanzer Puma as its newest Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV), destined to re...
2011
In concert with developments elsewhere, the Polish Army is seeking to field a modular tracked chassis to undertake a series o...
2011
The Boxer saw its origins in a late 1990s military requirement concerning the armies of the United Kingdom, France and German...
2009
In attempting to match North Korean armored capabilities from an advanced technology perspective, South Korea developed a mod...
2009
The BTR-4 eight-wheeled armored personnel carrier began as a in-house endeavor through the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building D...
2009
The RG-35 is a relatively new armored wheeled vehicle offering by Land Systems OMC of South Africa, a subsidiary of BAe Syste...
2008
The Israeli Army has always maintained a certain style of warfare based highly on their experiences in large-scale and locali...
2007
In 2007, the Russian Army adopted the 2S25 (also known as "Sprut-SD") series of tracked armored vehicles formally categorized...
2007
The CM-32 Yunpao ("Clouded Leopard") is an eight-wheeled, modular armored vehicle serving with the land forces of Taiwan. The...
2006
The Pindad APS-3 "Anoa" (also known as the "Pindad Panser") is an indigenous medium-class armored personnel carrier design ef...
2006
The massive expansion programs of the Chinese military in recent decades has added a new, all-modern amphibious tracked vehic...
2005
The biggest challenge to modern-day war planners has always been properly outfitting their airborne-minded soldiers (classica...
2003
The KTO Rosomak ("Wolverine") is a family of multi-purpose, eight-wheeled, armored vehicles currently in service with the Pol...
2002
The Cougar has since expanded into a full line of militarized armored vehicles. This began with the base 4x4 and 6x6 series C...
2002
The M1126 Stryker is another 8x8 wheeled armored machine in the long line of Stryker vehicles. The primary operational role o...
2001
The BTR-3 is a modern eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle that currently serves operationally with a handful of armies acr...
1999
The Bionix family was designed and developed to replace the ubiquitous, yet aging, series of American M113 armored personnel ...
1999
The nation of Ukraine was under the Soviet sphere of influence up to 1990 when the Empire was dissolved amidst a move to a mo...
1998
The Dardo Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) is part of the family of like-designed armored vehicles that include the tracked Ar...
1997
Leading up to the Islamic Revolution, Iran received its military support from Western players such as the United States. Afte...
1996
The Pandur I was a 6x6, multi-faceted wheeled chassis primarily serving as a fast armored personnel carrier within the invent...
1993
It was the Soviet Union that first introduced the large-scale concept of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) to the world wit...
1991
The Centauro B1 8x8 tank killer is in the same family line of Italian Army vehicles that include the Ariete Main Battle Tank ...
1990
The BMD-3 was a further installment in the relatively successful line of light amphibious, air-droppable infantry fighting ve...
1988
The Stingray Light Tank was developed as a private venture by Cadillac Gage (now Textron Marine & Land Systems) with the budg...
1987
Soviet Union engineers and factories garnered much experience in the massive armor battles against German and Axis forces tha...
1986
The Warrior is an infantry fighting vehicle currently in service with the armies of the United Kingdom and Kuwait. While the ...
1985
The PT-85 is a light amphibious tank system (may also be known as the "Type 82" or "Type 85") in service with the North Korea...
1985
The BMD-2 was a further evolution of the BMD-1 line of amphibious light infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) intended to be air-d...
1984
The Puma is a heavily-armored Combat Engineering Vehicle (CEV) that doubles as an Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) for the Com...
1983
In the 1970s, the Argentine government commissioned the German concern of Thyssen-Henschel (Rheinmetall since 1999) to produc...
1983
The LAV-25 8x8 wheeled system was designed and produced by General Motors of Canada (which went on to become General Dynamics...
1982
The Soviet Union introduced the concept of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) with the adoption of its BMP-1 in 1966. The ty...
1982
Italy already maintained several thousand license-production American M113 armored personnel carriers by OTO Melara, so it wa...
1981
The M3 Bradley CFV (Cavalry Fighting Vehicle) is very similar to the M2 Bradley IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle) and only vari...
1981
The M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle fulfilled a US Army requirement started in the early 1960's for a mechanized system ...
1979
The Ratel ("Honey Badger") Infantry Fighting Vehicle was a long-running family of 6x6 armored vehicles developed and produced...
1979
The Pegaso BMR ("Blindado Medio de Ruedas" - "Armored, Medium, Wheeled") series of wheeled vehicles are a multi-role 6x6 syst...
1978
Taiwanese military power has long been supported by the United States and the island nation received and operated the ubiquit...
1977
The French concerns of Renault and Panhard submitted designs to fulfill a 1970s French Army requirement for new 4x4 and 6x6 a...
1973
The AMX-10 series of APCs serves a variety of roles in the French Army and in export countries. Like other APCs of this type,...
1973
When the North Korean Army needed an armored personnel carrier, they turned to what they do best - license production of an e...
1972
The AAV-7 series of assault amphibious vehicles was born as the LVTP-7 in the late 1960s. The initiative called for an armore...
1970
The MT-LB was a product of late 1960's development and initially designated as the M1970 to the West. Initial designs wer...
1970
The Marder 1 is the principle infantry fighting vehicle for the German Army. It has its origins in the West German Army befor...
1969
The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) mated the firepower of the United States Air Force's standard aerial cannon - the M...
1969
Since the tactic of utilizing airborne troops came to lethal fruition in World War 2, there always lay the challenge of outfi...
1967
The Bravia Chaimite V-series of light armored vehicles is a Portuguese-designed and produced 4x4 armored personnel carrier (A...
1967
The French-made AMX VCI (for "Vehicule de Combat d'Infanterie") infantry combat system was designed to a specific French Army...
1966
The Soviet military was first major military power to widely adopt the concept of an "armored fighting infantry carrier" thro...
1962
The M114 Command and Reconnaissance Carrier followed the ubiquitous M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) series into operatio...
1960
The armored 8x8 wheeled BTR-60 of 1960 was developed as a direct replacement for the 6x6 wheeled BTR-152 series Armored Perso...
1945
The Black Prince Infantry Tank was the ultimate evolution of the storied Churchill Infantry Tank of the British Army that saw...
1943
After witnessing the successes of the German airborne divisions to take over most of Western Europe in the opening salvos of ...
1941
The LVT ("Landing Vehicle Tracked") began a long line of amphibious tracked American military vehicles for the US Army and Ma...
1941
The British Churchill series of tanks was the most important British tank of the Second World War. Built in numbers second on...
1941
No image of the American Army effort in world war two is complete with the appearance of a half-track series vehicle. The sys...
1940
Considered one of the more successful British tank designs of the early war years, the Valentine series served both British a...
1940
The Carro Armato P40 (more formally Carro Pesante P26/40 for "Heavy Tank P40") was one of the more impressive Italian tank de...
1940
The United States Army learned by experience in World War 1 that trying to move men and machine through mud and snow proved a...
1939
The Hotchkiss H39 superseded the H35 series light tanks in French Army service, being produced in more numbers than her forer...
1938
The first production "tank" (then known as a "landship") was born in the UK during World War 1. In the conflict, the tank pro...
1937
No other tank in the British Army inventory was as important as the Matilda II during the early years of World War 2. The Ger...
1936
In 1934, the French Army issued a new requirement for a cavalry tank in an attempt to modernized its inventory amidst growing...
1935
The L3 series of tankettes primarily served the Italian Army in the years leading up to World War 2. By this time in history,...
1931
The Renault Char D1 served the French Army for a time leading up to World War 2. Her origins and use lay in a World War 1 men...
1931
As was the norm after World War 1 in all industrialized nations around the globe, Soviet warplanners set about to upgrade the...
1923
The Vickers Medium Mark I series of tanks was one of the few mass-produced tank systems to be found in the 1920s. With a war-...
1919
The Mark VIII "International Tank" (also "Liberty" when powered by the American Liberty engine) would become the first tank i...
1918
The Mark IX tank was classified as an armored personnel carrier - effectively the world's first of its kind anywhere in opera...
1918
The Medium Mark C tank was a promising and notably agile armored system that arrived too late to see combat action in World W...
1918
The Holt Gas-Electric Tank became the first true "tank" to be designed and constructed by and for the United States. Hardly t...
1917
The comical-looking Sturmpanzerwagen A7V series was the first German attempt at an armored fighting vehicle - a tank - and ap...
1916
While traditionally categorized as one of the early combat "tanks" in history, the Char D'Assault St. Chamond featured qualit...
1916
The Schneider Char d'Assault tank was France's first real attempt at differentiating dedicated tanks from dedicated self-prop...
1915
The idea of a tracked armored fighting vehicle was first put into practical military use by the British Admiralty. In fact, i...
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