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Originally Posted by Skyrock
And so, even I learned something. Until now, I thought "armor" refers only to tanks, not armored jeeps and the like. (I wouldn't even know if there's a single German word for it without circumscription. Probably because we are only satisfied with the best of the best of the gropo motor pool - forget fancy jeeps with an inch of armor here and there and a puny machine gun, if it can't be hit by a falling mountain, vaporize half of it in one blast and then happily move on, it doesn't count as suitable wheels  ) |
Whacky Germans! (shakes head...) I would have figured that you'd have come up with a word that translated to something like "Wheelstracksturret-cannon-bearingmachinegun-firingsoldier-movingwitharmorplatingvehicle" by now...
-clash, whose father was literate in German and worked for a German company.