Armoured engineering and recovery vehicles

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See also: Hobart's Funnies

Churchill VII AVRE with fascine on tilt-forward cradle.	Sherman tank using a Churchill 'Ark' armoured ramp carrier to climb over an escarpment, 79th Armoured Division, 13 February 1944	Sherman crab flail tank under test, 79th Armoured Division, 27 April 1944	D-7 armoured bulldozer, 3rd Division, 1 May 1944
A Sherman BARV tows a disabled Bedford articulated lorry and trailer off the beach, 14 June 1944

See also: Military bulldozers

Crusader gun tractor converted to bulldozer	Centaur dozer	Alecto dozer	D-7 armoured bulldozer, 3rd Division (1944)
British CET, 2006	US Army M9 ACV

See also: Churchill ARK, M60 AVLB

Covenanter bridgelayer	Valentine tank-based bridgelayer (1987)	Churchill Ark Mk II (UK pattern) bridging vehicle	Bridgelayer on T-54/T-55 chassis at the Armeemuseum Dresden (2004)
Centurion ARK at the Yad la-Shiryon Museum (2005)	Centurion tank-based bridgelayer at the Yad la-Shiryon Museum (2005)	M60A1 AVLB (2003)	AVLB (2006)

See also: BTT-1 tractor, Centurion ARV, Centurion BARV, M31 ARV, M32 ARV, M578 ARV, M88 ARV, TrailBlazer ARV

BTT-1 at the Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel (2005)	The Centurion Armoured Recovery Vehicle II	M31 ARV in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel (2005)	M32 ARV (HVSS) in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel (2005)
M578 ARV with M551 Sheridan tank, Vietnam	M88 loads damaged M113 APC in Vietnam (1971)	TrailBlazer ARV in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel (2005)	Japanese Defense Forces

Sherman BARV, Earls Court, London, 8 February 1944.

Centurion BARV in Yad la-Shiryon Museum, Israel (2005)

See also: Churchill AVRE, M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle

Churchill AVRE of 163rd Brigade, 54th Division, with fascine during ditch crossing exercises near Dunwich (1943)	M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle (1991)	Centurion AVRE (2005)	French EBG armored engineering vehicles
British VLSMS (2006)