But never had infantry so decimated armoured vehicles.
Officers now cruise neighbourhoods in squad cars more often than in the elderly, lumbering armoured Land Rovers they once used.
An Uzbek cameraman has footage of an armoured personnel-carrier going through a crowd of agitated Kyrgyz men as it approaches some Uzbeks.
This device, developed at the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, is a microwave transmitter the size and shape of a small satellite dish that pivots on top of an armoured car.
A mostly male crowd wielding camera phones and video cameras massed along the street as two armoured ex-military vehicles and motorbikes carrying 20 topless women and a few men drove by.
It is said that when the good burghers of Amsterdam were first presented with a rhinoceros-armoured, horned, three-toed, with a prehensile lip-spectators shook their heads in disbelief.
