Tanks v. AFVs

[Raellus]

I think there's another thread dedicated to this subject in the archive.

IIRC, in the U.S. Army Vehicle Guide, it identifies the types of MBTs in each unit by name and gives a number for each group. I'm almost positive that it also states somewhere in there that, in addition to the MBTs specified, each unit may also contain a number of other armored vehicles like APCs and/or IFVs. Why else would the guides include many other light armored vehicle types in the guides if there aren't any around? From the vehicle guides, we can safely infer that the "AFV" figures given in the other sourcebooks refers to operational MBTs only.