Improvised vehicle armour is vehicle armour added in the field that was not originally part of the design or centrally planned.
Improvised vehicle armour has appeared on the battlefield for as long as there have been armoured vehicles in existence. In World War II, U.S. tank crews welded spare strips of tank track to the hulls of their Sherman, Grant, and Stuart tanks. In the Vietnam War, U.S. "gun trucks" were reinforced with sandbags and locally fabricated steel armour plate.
More recently, U.S. troops in Iraq have armoured their Humvees and various military transport vehicles with scrap materials: this came to be known as "hillbilly armor" by the Americans, or sometimes "hajji armour" when installed by Iraqi contractors.
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