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Improvised vehicle armour is vehicle armour added in the field that was not originally part of the design, in any sort of official up-armor kit, or centrally planned. Improvised vehicle armour has appeared on the battlefield for as long as there have been armoured vehicles in existence. In World War II, U.S. tank crews welded spare strips of tank track to the hulls of their Sherman, Grant, and Stuart tanks.〔Moran,Michael. ("Frantically, the Army tries to armor Humvees: Soft-skinned workhorses turning into death traps," ) ''MSNBC'', April 15, 2004.〕 In the Vietnam War, U.S. "gun trucks" were reinforced with sandbags and locally fabricated steel armour plate.〔Gardiner, Paul S. ("Gun Trucks: Genuine Examples of American Ingenuity," ) ''Army Logistician'', PB 700-03-4, Vol. 35, No. 4, July–August 2003, Army Combined Arms Support Command, Fort Lee, Virginia. ISSN 0004-2528〕 More recently, U.S. troops in Iraq have armoured their Humvees and various military transport vehicles with scrap materials: this came to be known as ''"hillbilly armor"'' by the Americans,〔Hirsh, Michael; Barry, John and Dehghanpisheh, Babak. ("'Hillbilly Armor': Defense sees it's fallen short in securing the troops. The grunts already knew," ) ''Newsweek'', December 20, 2004.〕 or sometimes ''"hajji armour"'' when installed by Iraqi contractors.〔 == World War I == In effect the first armoured cars to see combat were entirely improvised although this soon changed as the war continued. A few were used by the Belgian army during the German invasion.〔 The British Royal Naval Air Service received reports of this and converted some of their own cars.〔 Improvised conversion continued until December 1914 when the first standardized design entered service. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Improvised vehicle armour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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