WordNet
n. fast armored military vehicle with four-wheel drive and open top [syn: scout car]
Wikipedia
A reconnaissance vehicle, also known as a scout vehicle, is a military vehicle used for forward reconnaissance. Both tracked and wheeled reconnaissance vehicles are in service. In some nations, light tanks such as the M551 Sheridan and AMX-13 are also used by scout platoons. Reconnaissance vehicles are usually designed with a low profile or small size and are lightly armoured, relying on speed and cover to escape detection. Their armament ranges from a medium machine gun to a large cannon. Modern examples are often fitted with ATGMs and a wide range of sensors.
Some armoured personnel carriers and infantry mobility vehicle, such as the M113, TPz Fuchs, and Cadillac Gage Commando double in the reconnaissance role.
Usage examples of "reconnaissance vehicle".
This was the new, fast, reconnaissance vehicle, which we hadn't had yet in Russia.
Bolo designed as a forward reconnaissance vehicle and as an armored transport for small, elite special forces teams.
Tell him that an unmanned American reconnaissance vehicle doing surveillance for the UN Special Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction went off course and crashed, and we deeply regret any damage or loss of life.
The Mark XXI/I, on the other hand, was the smallest self-aware Bolo ever built: a very lightly armed stealth Bolo designed as a forward reconnaissance vehicle and as an armored transport for small, elite special forces teams.
Depending on the mood of the American sergeant commanding the smoke-generating vehicle, the smokescreen was used to block the Germans' view or actually blow right across the German reconnaissance vehicle.
The sound of Madame Yarnell's reconnaissance vehicle preceded the car itself.
The groundcar, while comfortable, was entirely too slow and too limited to serve as a reconnaissance vehicle.
The Hermians would hesitate to destroy a reconnaissance vehicle from Endeavour, even if they suspected its motives.
This model was developed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, which had dubbed it SAHRV, for Semi-Autonomous Hydrographic Reconnaissance Vehicle.