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The FV721 Fox Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled) (CVR(W)) was a 4 × 4 armoured car manufactured by ROF Leeds, deployed by the British Army as a replacement for the Ferret scout car and the Saladin armoured car. The Fox was introduced into service with B Squadron, 1st Royal Tank Regiment (Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth) in 1975 and withdrawn ...
The Fox armoured car was a wheeled armoured fighting vehicle ... Built by General Motors, Canada, based on a construction of the British Humber armoured car Mk ...
American armoured vehicles were purchased and sometimes re-fitted with British guns, and were used by British and British-supplied Allied forces throughout the war. Sherman IC and VC – Sherman I and Sherman V medium tank chassis adapted by the British with a redesigned turret to mount a British 17-pounder gun.
The Combat Reconnaissance Vehicle (Wheeled), abbreviated to CVR(W), was a line of vehicles to replace the Ferret Armoured Car in British Army service. Two variants were planned: Fox (FV721) – fitted with a high velocity 30 mm L21 RARDEN cannon , the same as fitted to the FV107 Scimitar Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle a member of the Combat ...
Armoured Car Regiments were reconnaissance units employed by the British Army during the 20th century. The primary equipment of these units was the armoured car with many different types of armoured cars serving in the regiments during the Second World War and the Cold War. An armoured car regiment typically numbered several hundred men and ...
The Force Protection Ocelot is a British infantry mobility vehicle that replaced the United Kingdom's Snatch Land Rover with British forces. [2] [3] It received the service name Foxhound, in line with the canine names given to other wheeled armored vehicles in current British use such as Mastiff, Wolfhound, and Ridgeback, which are all variants of the Cougar.
Ferret Scout Car wheeled (4×4) armoured car; FV721 Fox CVR wheeled (4×4) armoured car; Jackal family of vehicles including Jackal 2 and Coyote 6x6; Sabre tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicle; Saladin wheeled (6×6) armoured car; Scorpion tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicle; Scimitar tracked armoured reconnaissance vehicle
At the same time, consideration was being given to the replacement of the Saladin armoured car. [3] In 1960, work began on what was called the Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance. The vehicle would mount a 76 or 105 mm main gun in a limited-traverse turret, which also housed the three-man crew; namely: driver, gunner and commander.