We did some work to bring these "
Up to Speed" a few years back.
I have to do some rechecking but, I thought I read somewhere in the
deluge of refs that the UK was going to supply these also besides this
Crowd Funding effort.
I don't think they've been used in combat since
Iraq/Afghanistan now
maybe in the Ukraine I'm just going to pull one item from the ref.
"It holds the
Guinness world record for the
fastest production tank with its Diesel engine, recorded doing 82.23 km/h (51.10 mph) at the
QinetiQ vehicle test track, Chertsey, Surrey, on 26 January 2002. (The
original Jaguar engine enabled the vehicle to reach
100+ km/h!)."
Irelands are apparently more
powerful and reliable with a different engine. https://www.armyrecognition.com/defe..._vehicles.html
Also, the
Scorpion FV101 CVRT is being
brought up again from earlier posts I've seen. The last version the British Army operated was the
SCORPION 3. All were retired in 1994. A couple of other countries still operate them.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/unit...icle_data.html
I'm going to see if
SIPRI has released their
2022 arms transfer list yet, like us they've
pushed back their normal release date as well.
If I find something there, I'll post it. If not I'm sure, you'll figure out which
2 options prevented me from doing so.
0550 EDIT: SIPRI is updated through 2022. The above are not included when I checked Suppliers UK and Others (Which include Crowd Funding & similar.) and Recipient Ukraine. There is actually a Crowd Funded Equipment exchange shown. Back to bed for 4 more hours.
Regards,
Pat
