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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Fox Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle
		The FV 721 Fox Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (wheeled) was a 4x4 armoured car deployed by the British Army as a replacement for the Ferret scout car and the Saladin Armoured Car.
		The turret of the Fox has been remounted on the chassis of the Scorpion tank to create a new tracked reconnaissance vehicle, the Sabre, that is cheaper to produce than the similar FV107 Scimitar.
		A small number of Fox turrets were added to modified FV 432s in the mid-1970s, but this project was abandoned after 13 were converted.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Fox_Armoured_Reconnaissance_Vehicle (314 words)

	Armored car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Military armoured cars are a type of armoured fighting vehicles and have wheels (from four to eight large off-road wheels) instead of tracks, and light armor.
		At the beginning of the 20th century a number of military armoured vehicles were manufactured by adding armour and weapons to existing vehicles: armoured tractors, armoured cars, and armoured trains are known.
		Armoured cars have their use in peacekeeping or internal security duties where their appearance is less confrontational or threatening than tanks, their size and mobility are more in fitting with the urban environment and road damage is minimal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armored_car (460 words)

	Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Warrior tracked vehicle family, are a series of British armoured vehicles originally developed by GKN plc (which became part of Alvis Vickers Ltd), to replace the older FV432 series of armoured vehicles.
		Warrior Section Vehicles are able to carry and support 7 fully equipped soldiers together with supplies and weapons for a 48 hour battlefield day in nuclear/biological/chemical conditions.
		The Warrior Reconnaissance vehicle is normally operated by a crew of three, the driver, commander and the gunner and can carry a reconnaissance officer and additional surveillance equipment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warrior_Tracked_Armoured_Vehicle (511 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Armoured Fighting Vehicles (M6-Mz) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The M728 is the standard US army combat engineer vehicle, and is based on the M60 main battle tank, with the 105 mm gun replaced by a 165 mm demolition-charge launcher, a hydraulically operated dozer blade added and a winch added mounted on an A-Frame.
		The M8 was manned by a crew of four, protected by 8 mm thick armour, and armed with a 37 mm gun, a 7.62 mm machine-gun and a 0.5 inch anti-aircraft machine gun.
		The Marmon Herrington carried a crew of four protected by 12 mm thick armour and was armed with a Vickers 0.303 inch machine-gun and a Boys 0.5 inch anti- tank rifle and a bren machine-gun.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /FVMB.HTM (2221 words)

	Encyclopedia: British 7th Armoured Division (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was formed of the Cairo Cavalry Brigade (three armoured regiments, the 7th, 8th and 11th Hussars) and the 1st Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) supported by 3rd Royal Horse Artillery (RHA) and a company of Royal Army Service Corps (RASC) and a Field Ambulance unit.
		Hobart was an armoured warfare expert and saw that his troops were properly prepared to fight in the desert despite their poor equipment.
		As the tanks were unable to travel fast enough, the maneuver was led by a brigade of armoured cars, towed artillery, and infantry, which completed the trip in 30 hours, cutting off the Italian retreat and effectively destroying the Italian Tenth Army.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-7th-Armoured-Division (2395 words)

	FV101 Scorpion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Intended to be a fast and air-transportable reconnaissance vehicle, the Scorpion is built from mainly aluminium armour and mounts a L23A1 76 mm gun firing HE, HESH, Smoke, and Canister rounds.
		With a 'footprint' lighter than that of a man, it was one of the few vehicles capable of operating in the extreme conditions of the Falklands land mass (wheeled vehicles had almost no use away from established roads).
		The hulls have been reused with the turrets from the FV 721 Fox wheeled reconnaissance vehicle to form a new vehicle Sabre which is very similar in appearance to the Scimitar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/FV101_Scorpion (322 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Armoured Fighting Vehicles (S-Sb) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It was armed with a 47 mm gun, and had 55 mm frontal armour and a top speed of 23 mph and a range of 230 km.
		Sabre is a British tracked reconnaissance vehicle brought into service in 1995 using an Alvis Scorpion chassis and the 30mm turret from the Fox reconnaissance vehicle.
		The Saladin was manned by a crew of three protected by armour ranging from 8 to 32 mm thick and armed with a 76 mm gun, one 7.62 mm coaxial machine-gun and one 7.62 mm anti-aircraft machine-gun.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /FVQ.HTM (487 words)

	Armored PC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Fox was conceived in 1965 to replace the Ferret, Saladin and Saracen for reconnaissance.
		Looks are deceiving as most think the Fox is about the same size of the Ferret, but when side by side, one can see right away that the Fox is the big brother of the Ferret which looks small next the Fox.
		The hull is waterproofed for floatation and shallow fording.
	www.military-vehicle.net /vcls/fox.htm (291 words)

	Army Technology - Fuchs 2 - Armoured Wheeled Vehicle
		The vehicles are built by Rheinmetall Landsysteme, based in Kiel and Kassel in Germany.
		The vehicles are in service with the German Army and the armed forces of Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, USA and Venezuela.
		The family of Fuchs 2 vehicles includes an NBC protection vehicle, reconnaissance, C4I command, control, communications and intelligence, C3I, mortar carrier and an electronic warfare vehicle.
	www.army-technology.com /projects/fuchs (999 words)

	Ridgeback Road Security Vehicle
		The basic hull of both vehicles would be very similar and the vehicles would incorporate a large number of components that are already used in the military trucks that they would often escort.
		Wheelspan of the vehicles should be the same as that of common military and civilian cargo vehicles allowing the vehicle to more easily traverse poor roads that have been rutted by traffic.
		Vehicles such as the Japanese Type 87, Cadillac Gage V-150 Commando/M706 and (presumably) the M1117 ASV mount their engine on the rear of the hull and have space for a passageway to a single rear door.
	www.angelfire.com /art/enchanter/RSV.html (2341 words)

	Army Guide
		Details of this vehicle are given in the entry for the Alvis Scorpion reconnaissance vehicle in the Armoured fighting vehicles families section.
		The Fox is a further development of the late production Ferret light scout car (covered in detail in a separate entry) and has an all-welded aluminium armour hull and turret which gives protection against medium and heavy machine gunfire and field artillery splinters.
		The turret is in the centre of the vehicle with the commander/loader on the left and the gunner on the right, both with a single-piece hatch cover that opens to the rear.
	www.army-guide.com /eng/product.php?prodID=967 (1315 words)

	Rheinmetall AG - Land Systems
		This unique armoured vehicle is being developed under the aegis of Projekt, System und Management GmbH of Kassel, a joint venture of Rheinmetall Landsysteme and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, each of which hold a 50% stake in the company.
		Like all Wiesel 2 vehicles, it can be readily transported in a CH-53 cargo helicopter and, thanks to its extraordinary mobility and flexibility, is able to go into action almost as soon as it hits the ground.
		The vehicle is equipped with command and NBC protection systems and, depending on the task at hand, can be outfitted for a variety of combat engineer missions.
	www.rheinmetall-detec.de /index.php?lang=3&fid=2198 (1337 words)

	Encyclopedia: Scorpion (tank) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Intended to be a fast and air-transportable reconnaissance vehicle, the Scorpion is built from mainly aluminium armour and mounts a L23A1 76mm gun firing HE, HESH, Smoke and Cannister rounds.
		The hulls have been reused with the turrets from the FV 721 Fox wheeled reconnaisance vehicle to form a new vehicle Sabre_AFV which is very similar in appearance to FV107_Scimitar.
		These vehicles are collectively known as the CVR(T) - Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) - family.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scorpion-%28tank%29 (298 words)

	The Future of the U.S. Military
		Both vehicles will be capable of fully autonomous take-off, flight and recovery; be capable of dynamic retasking while in flight; and will operate in the same force structure.
		The vehicle, with its 116- foot wingspan and 44-foot length, carries both synthetic aperture radar and electro-optical and infrared sensors.
		FOX NBCRS - The FOX Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Reconnaissance System is a vehicle that protects a crew as they check the battlefield for contamination.
	www.technodynamic.com /todd/military1.html (1124 words)

	Medium Armored Vehicle (MAV)
		The range of tasks to be accomplished by the IBCT requires a family of vehicles that are air transportable, capable of immediate employment upon arrival in the area of operations, and have the greatest degree of commonality possible.
		Maintaining and sustaining war-fighting capability is paramount for the Family of Vehicles and throughout the Brigade structure.
		Armored vehicles from a number of commercial firms were tested at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., as a board decided which one will be used as the troop carrier for the new Brigade Combat Teams.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/mav.htm (2292 words)

	Armoured Car - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		Armoured Regiments and Armoured Reconnaissance Regiments were both organized with tanks rather than armoured cars, though armoured cars were used in the intercommunication troop of regimental headquarters.
		The vehicle was armed with a GPMG and a.50 calibre M2 heavy machine gun, with a crew of three operating the vehicle (commander, driver, observer).
		Armour was rolled aluminum as on the M114, with a maximum of 31.8 millimetres.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Armoured_Car (4185 words)

	Rheinmetall AG - Still outfoxing them all: Fuchs NBC armoured reconnaissance vehicle undergoes combat performance ...
		At the time, the German procurement authorities issued a requirement for a vehicle capable of manoeuvring in contaminated terrain, with the ability to detect, analyze and evaluate nuclear, biological and chemical hazards.
		The vehicles sold by Germany to the US came from the Bundeswehr's inventory, as Thyssen-Henschel AG was hard pressed to meet the sudden spike in demand for new vehicles.
		In any case, the Thyssen-Henschel vehicles proved to be unexpectedly at home in the blazing oil fields and hot sands of the Kuwaiti desert.
	www.rheinmetall.de /index.php?lang=3&fid=1578 (994 words)

	CANADIAN ARMOURED VEHICLES
		The Fox armoured car was made by General Motors of Canada by the simple expedient of marrying the British Humber III armoured car hull to the CMP Model 8446 rear engined 4 x 4 armoured car chassis.
		The Fox was powered by the GM 270 cu in six cylinder engine and was armed with one.50 cal heavy machine gun and one.30 cal medium machine gun mounted co-axially in an armoured hand traversed turret.
		The truck's main role was as an armoured personnel carrier that could seat six in the body of the vehicle as well the driver and commander in the normal positions.
	users.bigpond.net.au /blitz_trucks/CANCARS.html (745 words)

	Ferret, White, Saladin, Staghound, Saracen, Canadian
		The Ferret proved to be an ideal vehicle to undertake this role, having a low profile and being a quiet vehicle.
		The family of vehicles included the personnel carrier, mortar carrier, command vehicle, fitters vehicle, recovery vehicle and ambulance, all of which were employed in the 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
		The FSV was an interim vehicle which was a combination of the M113 hull with a Saladin turret.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-armour/allied/recent.htm (1566 words)

	CANADIAN ARMOURED VEHICLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Fox armoured car was made by General Motors of Canada by the simple expedient of marrying the British Humber III armoured car hull to the CMP Model 8446 rear engined 4 x 4 armoured car chassis.
		The Fox was powered by the GM 270 cu in six cylinder engine and was armed with one.50 cal heavy machine gun and one.30 cal medium machine gun mounted co-axially in an armoured hand traversed turret.
		The truck's main role was as an armoured personnel carrier that could seat six in the body of the vehicle as well the driver and commander in the normal positions.
	www.users.bigpond.com /ROD_DIERY/CANCARS.html (776 words)

	Falklands War - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Twenty US-built LVTP-7A1 tracked amphibious armoured personnel carriers from the 1st Amphibious Vehicles Battalion, carrying D and E Companies of the 2nd Marine Infantry Battalion, had been landed from the ex-US tank landing ship Cabo San Antonio, and were being watched by a section of Royal Marines under the command of Lieutenant Bill Trollope.
		The armoured column trundled along the Airport Road into Stanley with three Amtracs (05, 07 and 19) in the vanguard and near the Ionospheric Research Station at exactly 7:15 am were engaged by a section of Royal Marines with anti-tank rockets and machine-guns.
		I ordered the crew with the recoilless rifle to fire one round of hollow charge at the ridge of the roof of the house where the machine-gun was, to cause a bang but not an explosion.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Falklands_War (8116 words)

	Desert Fox - combat vehicle
		To aid the driver in evasive manoeuvring without guidance from the vehicle commander, a small camera is mounted on the rear of the vehicle with a monitor up front.
		The basic chassis is clad with add-on armour that can withstand 7.62mm AP rounds, and different types of protection material may be used to meet different demands.
		The Fennek is an ideal vehicle to operate alongside larger-wheeled apcs such as Fuchs, Piranha and Patria, and is why the Dutch army is buying 202 reconnaissance versions and 130 to carry the Israeli-manufactured Gill medium-range anti-tank weapon.
	www.global-defence.com /2003/fennek.htm (941 words)

	Rheinmetall AG - About us
		A core competence of Rheinmetall Defence is the development and manufacture of armoured vehicles of various weight classes, ranging from the new Light Infantry Vehicle for mobile special forces units to a variety of combat engineer vehicles and the legendary Leopard main battle tank, many of whose key components bear the Rheinmetall hallmark.
		Examples here include vehicles which are well-protected but still light enough to be airlifted into distant trouble spots, or the adoption of open IT interfaces enabling the universal networking of platforms of different military components and even different armies.
		In addition to an extensive array of platforms and components, including state-of-the-art command, reconnaissance and monitoring equipment and highly effective weapons systems and ammunition, Rheinmetall Defence is unsurpassed in integrating the most diverse individual components and subsystems into networked total solutions.
	www.rheinmetall-detec.de /index.php?fid=766&lang=3 (811 words)

	Rheinmetall AG - Rheinmetall Defence Electronics: makers of the German artillery's "eye in the sky"
		At the heart of the new Fennek ("fennic fox") armoured reconnaissance vehicle (shown here at left with the Luchs armoured reconnaissance vehicle in the background) is RDE's observation and reconnaissance system, or BAA.
		Today, the world's most advanced armed forces are feverishly upgrading their equipment to meet the heightened requirement for reconnaissance and intelligence collection, the ultimate aim being to protect their own men and materiel.
		Bearing a strong resemblance to an off-the-shelf model airplane, the Carolo is designed for a reconnaissance and monitoring role, enabling soldiers to see what is happening "on the other side of the hill" — or behind the next block of buildings.
	www.rheinmetall.com /index.php?fid=1663&lang=3 (1163 words)

	The Fox Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle - gizmag Article
		The Fuchs NBC reconnaissance system is an armoured, 6x6 vehicle capable of rapidly detecting nuclear and chemical warfare agents in the air and on the ground.
		In detail, the Fuchs NBC reconnaissance system is equipped with a nuclear detector device capable of sensing high dose rates of gamma radiation with the aid of two external probe heads mounted on the vehicle exterior.
		The Fuchs biological reconnaissance system permanently monitors the external air to detect any rise in particle concentration in a size range which is significant for biological warfare agents, and also detects characteristic biological molecules in the vehicle surroundings.
	www.gizmag.com /go/5438 (1008 words)

	Army Technology - LUNA Aerial Reconnaissance and Surveillance UAV
		The reconnaissance and surveillance flight and mission plan can be preprogramed into the air vehicle prior to launch, and can be altered during flight.
		The air vehicle is very small, with a wing span of 4.17m and a length of 2.28m.
		The engine is restarted when the air vehicle leaves the target area in order to continue the surveillance mission or to return to base.
	www.army-technology.com /projects/luna (1162 words)

	Khaki Corps Imports - British CVR(W) Fox Light Armoured Car
		The Fox was being developed at the same time as the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) Scorpion.
		The layout is similar to the CVR(T)s with the driver in the front of the hull and the gunner and commander in the turret.
		The Fox is a very impressive MV with it’s long barreled 30mm gun and turret.
	www.khakicorpsimports.com /cat-wheel-fox.htm (268 words)

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