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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 The Fox was introduced into service with B Squadron, 1st Royal Tank Regiment (Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth) in 1975 and withdrawn ...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 produced by Canada in the Second World War. History. Built by General Motors, Canada, ...
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 ...
M104 Wolverine (armored bridge layer) M9 armored combat earthmover; M60A1 armored vehicle-launched bridge (AVLB) M88 recovery vehicle; M728 combat engineer vehicle (CEV) M981 FISTV; M93 Fox NBCRS (nuclear–biological–chemical reconnaissance system)
After its formation in England, 8 Recce was equipped initially with BSA M20 motorcycles, 15-cwt and 3-ton Canadian Military Pattern trucks, the light Fox Armoured Car, automatic weapons and radio communication equipment. The equipment was upgraded progressively during the three years of training in England to include more heavily armed armoured ...
The General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) M93 Fox NBCRS (Nuclear Biological Chemical Reconnaissance System) vehicle is the US variant of the Fuchs 1 NBC reconnaissance vehicle. The requirement for an NBC reconnaissance vehicle, for use by US Forces in the European theatre, was first recognised and a three-phase program initiated in the late ...
LAV III – a light armoured vehicle based on the Mowag Piranha III; LAV 6 – a upgraded version of the LAV III; Fox armoured car – Canadian version of Humber armoured car; Otter light reconnaissance car – World War II 4x4 armoured car. [14]
The Sabre was a hybrid vehicle, with the turret from a Fox Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle on a FV101 Scorpion hull and armed with the same 30mm RARDEN cannon as the Scimitar. One hundred and thirty-six of these hybrid vehicles were brought into service in 1995, after some modifications were made to the turret.