Editing Armored car (military) (section)

=== World War II ===
The British [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF) in the [[Middle East]] was equipped with [[Rolls-Royce Armoured Car]]s<!-- "Armoured Car" is a proper noun here. Do not change this capitalisation. --> and Morris tenders. Some of these vehicles were among the last of a consignment of ex-[[Royal Navy]] armored cars that had been serving in the [[Middle East]] since 1915.<ref>Lyman, ''Iraq 1941'', pg. 40</ref>  In September 1940 a section of the No. 2 Squadron RAF Regiment Company was detached to [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|General Wavell's]] ground forces during the first offensive against the Italians in Egypt. During the actions in the October of that year the company was employed on convoy escort tasks, airfield defense, fighting reconnaissance patrols and screening operations.

[[Image:UStankParis-edit1.jpg|thumb|upright|American troops in an [[M8 Greyhound]] passing the [[Arc de Triomphe]] after the [[liberation of Paris]]]]

During the 1941 [[Anglo-Iraqi War]], some of the units located in the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate of Palestine]]<ref>Lyman, p. 57</ref> were sent to Iraq and drove Fordson armored cars.<ref>Lyman, ''Iraq 1941'', pg. 25</ref> "Fordson" armored cars were Rolls-Royce armored cars which received new chassis from a [[Fordson]] truck in [[Egypt]].

By the start of the new war, the German army possessed some highly effective reconnaissance vehicles, such as the ''[[Schwerer Panzerspähwagen]]''. The Soviet [[BA-64]] was influenced by a captured ''[[Leichter Panzerspähwagen]]'' before it was first tested in January 1942.

In the second half of the war, the American [[M8 Greyhound]] and the British [[Daimler Armoured Car]]s featured turrets mounting light guns (40 mm or less). As with other wartime armored cars, their reconnaissance roles emphasized greater speed and stealth than a tracked vehicle could provide, so their limited armor, armament and off-road capabilities were seen as acceptable compromises.