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Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicle
| | | General Characteristics (Warrior) | | Length: | 6340 mm | | Width: | 3034 mm | | Height: | 2791 mm | | Mass: | approximately 24 tonnes, loaded, with gun turret | | Speed: | Road: 75 km/h | | Range: | over 600 km | | Primary armament: | 30mm RARDEN cannon
Light Anti-Armour Weapon (LAW) HEAT rockets | | Secondary armament: | 7.62 mm machine gun | | Power plant: | 550 hp Perkins Rolls-Royce V8 Condor engine | | Crew: | 3 + 7 troops |
The MCV-80 Warrior Tracked Armoured Vehicles are light armoured multi-purpose transports used by the British army. Warrior variants include artillery observation post vehicle (OPV) and command post vehicle (CPV), a Royal Mechanical and Electrical Engineers (REME) recovery and repair vehicle, light tank fitted with a L7 105 mm gun turret, anti-aircraft vehicles, TOW or HOT missile tank hunter, reconnaissance vehicle with 76 mm or 90 mm main gun, transport, or missile lancher.
They are not amphibious, but have NBC capabilities. MCV-80 have a wide array of night vision systems.
A Warrior vehicle with UN markings, on the making of the eponymous film.
Their strong aluminium armour proved efficient against small arm fire and self-propeled grenades during the conflict in Bosnia.
Trivia
The Warriors vehicles inspired the name of the eponymous film about the war in Bosnia, by the BBC http://www.badgerland.co.uk/shops/videos_dvds/drama_tv/modern/warriors.html
See Also External Links and references
- Foss, Christopher & Sarson, Peter. Warrior Mechanised Combat Vehicle 1987 - 1994, Osprey UK, 1994, London, New Vanguard Series No. 10.
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