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The FV603 Saracen was the armoured personnel carrier of Alvis's FV600 series. Besides the driver and commander, a squad of eight soldiers plus a troop commander could be carried. Most models carried a small turret on the roof, carrying a Browning .30 machine gun.
FV11002: Tractor 10-ton, 6 x 6 GS, AEC Militant Mk 2; FV11003: Truck Crane Bridging 6 x 6, AEC Militant; FV11005: Truck End-tipper 6 x 6, AEC Militant; FV11009: Truck, Fuel Tanker 2,500 gallon 6 x 6, AEC Militant
The Stalwart, formally classified by the British Army as Truck, High Mobility Load Carrier (HMLC), 5 Ton, 6 x 6, Alvis Stalwart and informally known by servicemen as the Stolly, and by former RCT as the Stally, [1] is a highly mobile amphibious military truck.
Saracen (popular name for the FV603 Saracen) Sarath infantry fighting vehicle based on the BMP-1 (India; Cold War) Saur 8×8 armoured personnel carrier (Romania; modern) Saxon (popular name for the AT105 Saxon) Schneider CA1 tank (France; World War I) Schützenpanzer Lang HS.30 armoured personnel carrier (West Germany; Cold War)
The Alvis Salamander is a six-wheel drive airport crash tender with off-road capabilities, developed in 1956. [1]It shares the same common Alvis six-wheel-drive chassis and other components with the FV 601 Saladin armoured car and FV 603 Saracen armoured personnel carrier.
Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd was a British manufacturing company in Coventry from 1919 to 1967. In addition to automobiles designed for the civilian market, the company also produced racing cars, aircraft engines, armoured cars and other armoured fighting vehicles.
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 ...
Swingfire was a British wire-guided anti-tank missile developed in the 1960s and produced from 1966 until 1993. [2] The name refers to its ability to make a rapid turn of up to ninety degrees after firing to bring it onto the line of the sighting mechanism.