Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In February 2023, the UK placed an order with Supacat for 70 Extenda Mk2 vehicles to be known as the Jackal 3 and has the option of acquiring a total of 240 of the vehicles. [35] [36] [37] British Army - 431 Jackals and 72 Coyotes in service. [38] Royal Air Force - unknown quantity used by the RAF Regiment. [39]
During the Cold War The Queen's Own Yeomanry was a British Army of the Rhine Regiment with an Armoured Reconnaissance role in Germany. With the Strategic Defence Review in 1999 the geographical locations of the regiment changed to encompass East Scotland and Northern Ireland. [ 5 ]
The unit then transitioned away from tracked vehicles and onto wheel based platformed, first with Land Rover RWMIK in 2003 and then onto Jackal (vehicle) in 2018 to perform the light armoured reconnaissance role. [4]
A static British Army WMIK on display. Supacat Jackal. The regiment's main equipment is the Supacat Jackal, a light armoured vehicle equipped with the General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG) and the Browning M2.50 Heavy Machine Gun (HMG). [1] [37]
A system of pairing exists in the British Army of Regular to Reserve unit. Through this, operational and training cycles are aligned, resources shared and strategic depth enabled. In the Royal Armoured Corps this manifests with each yeomanry unit being paired with a regular unit of the same role.
The regiment converted to the role of light cavalry as part of restructuring in the army under Army 2020.It is equipped with Jackal armoured fighting vehicles. [16] The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards is paired with the Scottish and North Irish Yeomanry, an Army Reserve light cavalry regiment.
0-4-2T 'Gazelle' inside the Museum 8 August 1995. The Museum of Army Transport was a museum of British Army vehicles in Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.. The collection included a diverse collection of armoured vehicles and support vehicles, many of which were part of the National Army Museum, as well as railway locomotives and rolling stock, and the only remaining Blackburn ...
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.