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Nagmachon is a heavily armoured armoured personnel carrier
Armoured personnel carrier

Armoured personnel carriers are armoured fighting vehicles developed to transport infantry on the battlefield. They usually have only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortar ....
 fielded by the Israel Defence Forces. The Nagmachon evolved from the NagmaSho't APC, which in turn was based on Centurion
Centurion

Centurion may refer to:...
 Sho't
Sho't

Sho't is the Israeli designation of the 105 mm L7 gunned Centurion tank, which entered Israeli service in 1970....
 hulls from the 1970s and 1980s. The vehicle carries thick belly armour designed to withstand mine
Anti-tank mine

An anti-tank mine, , is a type of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armoured fighting vehicles.Compared to anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines typically have a much larger explosive charge, and a Fuse #Munition fuzes designed only to be triggered by vehicles or, in some cases, tampering with the mine....
-blasts and mountings on the front hull for various engineering devices such as mine plow
Mine plow

A mine plough is a tank-mounted device designed to clear a lane through a minefield, allowing other vehicles to follow. Buried land mines are plowed up and pushed outside the tank's track path or tipped over....
s, mine roller
Mine roller

A mine roller or mine trawl is a demining device mounted on a tank or armoured personnel carrier, designed to detonate anti-tank land mine....
s and dozer blades
Bulldozer

----A bulldozer is a Tractor crawler , equipped with a substantial metal plate , used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc, during construction work....
. In addition to its belly armour and the relatively heavy armour of the Centurion hull, the Nagmachon also carries explosive reactive armour
Reactive armour

Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour that reacts in some way to the impact of a weapon to reduce the damage done to the vehicle being protected....
 to counter HEAT
High explosive anti-tank

High Explosive Anti-Tank rounds are made of an explosive shaped charge that uses the Neumann effect to create a very high-velocity jet of metal in a state of superplasticity that can punch through solid vehicle armour....
 rounds, such as rocket propelled grenades
RPG-7

The RPG-7 is a widely-produced, portable, Shoulder-launched missile weapon, anti-tank rocket propelled grenade weapon. Originally the RPG-7 and its predecessor, the RPG-2, were designed by the Soviet Union, and now manufactured by the Bazalt company....
.

Early Nagmachons were equipped with three armoured shields to give soldiers firing the mounted FN
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often abbreviated as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a Belgium manufacturer of firearms. The official company name is FN Herstal....
 MAGs some degree of protection from small arms
Small arms

Small arms is a general term used by the armed forces to refer to infantry weapons, such as the firearms that an individual soldier can carry....
 fire.






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Nagmachon is a heavily armoured armoured personnel carrier
Armoured personnel carrier

Armoured personnel carriers are armoured fighting vehicles developed to transport infantry on the battlefield. They usually have only a machine gun although variants carry recoilless rifles, anti-tank guided missiles , or mortar ....
 fielded by the Israel Defence Forces. The Nagmachon evolved from the NagmaSho't APC, which in turn was based on Centurion
Centurion

Centurion may refer to:...
 Sho't
Sho't

Sho't is the Israeli designation of the 105 mm L7 gunned Centurion tank, which entered Israeli service in 1970....
 hulls from the 1970s and 1980s. The vehicle carries thick belly armour designed to withstand mine
Anti-tank mine

An anti-tank mine, , is a type of land mine designed to damage or destroy vehicles including tanks and armoured fighting vehicles.Compared to anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines typically have a much larger explosive charge, and a Fuse #Munition fuzes designed only to be triggered by vehicles or, in some cases, tampering with the mine....
-blasts and mountings on the front hull for various engineering devices such as mine plow
Mine plow

A mine plough is a tank-mounted device designed to clear a lane through a minefield, allowing other vehicles to follow. Buried land mines are plowed up and pushed outside the tank's track path or tipped over....
s, mine roller
Mine roller

A mine roller or mine trawl is a demining device mounted on a tank or armoured personnel carrier, designed to detonate anti-tank land mine....
s and dozer blades
Bulldozer

----A bulldozer is a Tractor crawler , equipped with a substantial metal plate , used to push large quantities of soil, sand, rubble, etc, during construction work....
. In addition to its belly armour and the relatively heavy armour of the Centurion hull, the Nagmachon also carries explosive reactive armour
Reactive armour

Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour that reacts in some way to the impact of a weapon to reduce the damage done to the vehicle being protected....
 to counter HEAT
High explosive anti-tank

High Explosive Anti-Tank rounds are made of an explosive shaped charge that uses the Neumann effect to create a very high-velocity jet of metal in a state of superplasticity that can punch through solid vehicle armour....
 rounds, such as rocket propelled grenades
RPG-7

The RPG-7 is a widely-produced, portable, Shoulder-launched missile weapon, anti-tank rocket propelled grenade weapon. Originally the RPG-7 and its predecessor, the RPG-2, were designed by the Soviet Union, and now manufactured by the Bazalt company....
.

Early Nagmachons were equipped with three armoured shields to give soldiers firing the mounted FN
Fabrique Nationale de Herstal

Fabrique Nationale de Herstal, more often abbreviated as Fabrique Nationale or simply FN, is a Belgium manufacturer of firearms. The official company name is FN Herstal....
 MAGs some degree of protection from small arms
Small arms

Small arms is a general term used by the armed forces to refer to infantry weapons, such as the firearms that an individual soldier can carry....
 fire. Later Nagmachons were fitted a distinctive raised superstructure, sometimes referred to as a 'doghouse'. The raised superstructure and increased mine protection have made the Nagmachon an ideal platform for counter-insurgency and urban operations
Urban warfare

Urban warfare is modern warfare conducted in urban areas such as towns and city. As a distinction, warfare conducted in population centers before the 20th century is generally considered Siege....
, seeing much use in the al-Aqsa Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada

The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian people uprising, a period of intensified Israeli?Palestinian conflict violence, which began in late September 2000....
 within the occupied territories
Israeli-occupied territories

The are the territories captured by Israel from Egypt, Jordan, and Syria during the Six-Day War of 1967, consisting of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, and, until 1979, the Sinai Peninsula....
 and southern Lebanon. It is often used as an engineering vehicle
Combat engineering vehicle

Combat engineering vehicles are armoured vehicles built for engineering work on the battlefield or for the transportation of sappers....
 and a carrier for sappers
Combat engineering

Combat engineering is a combat arms role of using the knowledge, tools and techniques of engineering by troops in peace and war, but specifically in combat....
, although its main role has been to carry infantry.

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