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Unrestored interior of a 1959 Saracen armoured personnel carrier. The Saracen was in turn used as an armoured personnel carrier, armoured command vehicle, and ambulance. The FV 603 model saw many variants in detail, including radio or command fitments and specialist equipment for artillery or signals use. The Saracen series also includes:
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BAE Land Systems, the descendant of Alvis military vehicles, market Stormer with various weapon systems for many purposes. Indonesia has received about 50 Stormer variants, including the APC, command post vehicle, ambulance, recovery, bridge-layers and logistics vehicle. Malaysia has 35, Oman has four and the United Kingdom has over 170. [23]
Priority was given to the Australian Regular Army's APC units, where the M113s initially replaced Alvis Saracen wheeled APCs. [ 30 ] [ 33 ] CMF units were accorded a low priority for M113s due to the need to allocate them to units involved in the Vietnam War , and some did not receive any until the late 1960s. [ 34 ]
Boragh APC; Rakhsh 4x4 APC; Sarir 4x4 APC; Hoveyzeh Tracked light vehicle; BPR-82 Sedad 23 mm BTR-60PB with an unmanned ZU-23-2. Heidar-6 BTR-60PB with a 2A28 Grom and a new engine. Heidar-7 BTR-60PB with unmanned 23mm turret, ERA, and a new engine.
Pandur II APC Pandur II IFV Pandur II FSV 38 [83] Locally known as Cobra 8x8. The variant includes APC, IFV (30mm), and FSV (105mm) and will be manufactured locally by PT Pindad. [84] 4 The APC and FSV variant pandur units were purchased in 2017. 15 vehicle Used by the army in 2024. [73] 23 more Vehicles are being handed over in October 2024 ...
The History of the Saracen Empires is a book written by Simon Ockley of Cambridge University and first published in the early 18th century. [3] The book has been reprinted many times, including at London in 1894. [4] It was published in two volumes that appeared a decade apart.
In the early 1970s against the background of the escalating Troubles in Northern Ireland the Irish Government decided to expand the Irish Army. [1] In 1972 Séamus Timoney, a professor at University College Dublin (who had previously contributed to the design of the British FV601 Saladin and FV603 Saracen armoured vehicles) offered to design a new APC, based on requirements developed in ...