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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. [34] [35] [36] British Army - 431 Jackals and 72 Coyotes in service. [37] Royal Air Force - unknown quantity used by the RAF Regiment. [38]
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]
(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 Queens Own Yeomanry was initially formed on 1 April 1971 as the 2nd Armoured Car Regiment from five of the yeomanry units across the North and Middle of England and South West Scotland. [4] During the Cold War The Queen's Own Yeomanry was a British Army of the Rhine Regiment with an Armoured Reconnaissance role in Germany.
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.
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.
In 1967, it was disbanded and immediately reconstituted as the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry (T), a TAVR III (Home Defence) infantry unit of the Territorial Army. [1] It was reduced to a cadre in 1969, and became the Yorkshire Squadron, the Queen's Own Yeomanry in 1971.
It is primarily equipped with the Jackal reconnaissance vehicle, having converted from the RWIMIK platform. [11] The regiment was formerly under the control of 51st Infantry Brigade and Headquarters Scotland, but came under control of 19th Brigade in 2022; [12] it is the only army reserve armoured unit in Scotland and Northern Ireland. [1] [2]