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Infantry fighting vehicle, an Uncommon card
An infantry fighting vehicle, also known as a mechanized infantry combat vehicle, is a type of armoured fighting vehicle designed both to transport infantry into battle and to provide direct fire support, combining the function of an armoured personnel carrier with that of an assault gun/light tank.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 70
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 158
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 170,000
Power 158 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Infantry fighting vehicle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Infantry fighting vehicle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
IFVs often serve both as the principal weapons system and as the mode of transport for a ______ infantry unit.
Answer
mechanized. IFVs often serve both as the principal weapons system and as the mode of transport for a mechanized infantry unit. From the Infantry fighting vehicle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kunming. Kunming 88 · Moldavia 81 · Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi 77 · Infantry fighting vehicle 70 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe defines an infantry fighting vehicle as "an armoured combat vehicle which is designed and equipped primarily to transport a combat infantry squad, and which is armed with an integral or organic cannon of at least 20 millimeters calibre and sometimes an antitank missile launcher".
- IFVs often serve both as the principal weapons system and as the mode of transport for a mechanized infantry unit.
- Infantry fighting vehicles are distinct from conventional APCs, which are primarily used for infantry transportation and armed only for self-defense, and not specifically engineered to fight as independent combat vehicles.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Infantry fighting vehicle article was read about 170,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 70 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
How to get Infantry fighting vehicle
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Infantry fighting vehicle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Matthew Foster, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
