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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. [36] [37] [38] British Army - 431 Jackals and 72 Coyotes in service. [39] Royal Air Force - unknown quantity used by the RAF Regiment. [40]
Consequently, in 1996 [11] the Royal Yeomanry accepted the role of being the British Army's only [12] specialist nuclear, biological and chemical defence regiment, [11] [1] taking on the 11 Fuchs CBRN reconnaissance vehicles which had been acquired by the British Army during the 1990 Gulf War. [13]
Ajax is the first British vehicle to be fitted with the Case Telescoped 40mm Cannon. [162] To be increased to 589 vehicles by 2029. [163] Boxer Germany: Armoured personnel carrier: 2 [164] (623 by 2032) Boxer is the new British Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV), an eight-by-eight-wheeled, all-terrain, armoured transport vehicle.
The British Army is the biggest user of the HMT with purchases between June 2007 and late 2010 of the HMT 400 designated as the Jackal and HMT 600 designated as the Coyote totalling 575 vehicles. [11] The British Army has also developed specialist variants of the HMT.
(Jackal) Light Cavalry – Army Reserve (Jackal) [20] 1st Armoured Infantry Brigade 7th Infantry Brigade; The King's Royal Hussars: The Royal Lancers (Queen Elizabeth's Own) The Royal Dragoon Guards. Queen's Dragoon Guards: The Royal Yeomanry: 12th Armoured Infantry Brigade 4th Infantry Brigade; The Royal Tank Regiment: The Light Dragoons: The ...
The Warrior incorporates several design features in keeping with the UK's battlefield experience. In particular, there are no firing ports in the hull, in line with British thinking that the role of the armoured personnel carrier/infantry fighting vehicle (APC/IFV) is to carry troops under protection to the objective and then give firepower support when they have disembarked.
The Coyote 6×6 Tactical Support Vehicle (TSV) is a larger derivative of the Jackal, which acts in support of the Jackal 2 4×4 and allows transportation of supplies and equipment over similar terrain (up to 1.5t). [47] Land Rover Wolf United Kingdom: Utility vehicle The Land Rover Wolf is a militarised version of the Land Rover Defender.
The vehicles, museum site, and its unspoilt 300 acres (1.2 km 2) has been used for television films, documentaries and dramas. [4] The museum offers rides in a military vehicle and hosts "tank driving" in a FV432. Among the 25 working tanks are a Panzer P-68, a Chieftain and a Stuart M5A1, a Soviet T-55 and a Canadian-built Sherman.