FV103Spartan (left) and FV102 Striker in the US Army field recognition manual.
Rather than a general personnel carrier for infantry, the Spartan is retained for moving specialist teams (eg anti-aircraft missile teams, Royal Engineer technicians) across the battlefield.
FV120 Spartan with MILAN Compact Turret (MCT) - a anti-tank guided missile equipped variant.
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The Spartan, FV103 is another type of Armoured Personnel Carrier used by the British Army, but for very different roles than the FV432.
Spartan has a crew of three with room for just four personnel in the back.
It was found to be particularly useful in the UN role in Bosnia (where the vehicles were painted white with UN markings) as it was regarded as less threatening that the turreted Scimitar or Warrior.
FV103Spartan is a British Army armoured personnel carrier.
Rather than a general personnel carrier for infantry, the Spartan is retained for moving specialist teams (eg missile teams, Royal Engineer technicians) across the battlefield.
Crew: Commander, driver and 5 passengers, or 3 crew and 4 passengers.
First seen in 1969, the Scorpion is no longer in the British Army although variants continue, including the FV102 Striker anti-tank vehicle with five Swingfire anti-tank guided missile launchers; FV103Spartanarmoured personnel carrier; FV104 Samaritan ambulance; FV105 Sultan command vehicle; FV106 Samson recovery vehicle and the FV107 Scimitar reconnaissance vehicle with a 30mm gun.
Other variants in the Army are the Sabre, fitted with a Vickers Defence Systems Fox light armoured car turret, also with a 30mm cannon and additionally a 7.62mm co-axial machine gun.
The FV103Spartanarmoured personnel carrier (APC), has a crew of two and space for up to five fully equipped infantry and the purpose-built Warrior APC has a crew of three and can accommodate seven fully equipped soldiers.
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FV103Spartan is a specialised APC meant to carry engineer assault or MANPAD teams and, carrying just four additional persons, is not meant as a standard personnel carrier.
Usually armed with a 7.62mm machinegun, Spartan can mount a two-man turret carrying two Euromissile Milan ATGWs launch-ready, Hughes TOW ATGWs, or twin 20mm cannon.
ZB 298 ground surveillance radar may be mounted on Spartan’s roof.
STURGEON is the old SPARTAN MCT also TES ex phase and with capabillities of a BMP 3
No further variants are planned as the MoD have run out of names starting with "S" by now.
You can buy a delivery mileage only, off-the shelf, NATO reserve stock Spartan for 7,500 pounds sterling from Witham Specialist Vehicles in Lincolnshire; worth thinking about to beat that commute?
We reacted when he gassed the Kurds with Tabun and Sarin, and we sat back and watched as his war with Iran escalated to a mainly one-sided chemical war.
It is not a new concept of war, in fact it dates as early as 431-404BC, when the Athenians and Spartans used Sulphur Dioxide by catapulting burning pitch on each other, (an older form of napalm?
