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rockets used by insurgents. A new engine and steering gear provide better mobility and maneuverability. Other features include air conditioning and a gun station fitted with a 7.62mm machine-gun that can be controlled from inside the vehicle. Nine hundred FV430s were expected to be modified in this
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The FV430 chassis is a conventional tracked design with the engine at the front and the driving position to the right. The hatch for the vehicle commander is directly behind the driver's; a pintle mount next to it can take a machine gun. There is a side-hinged door in the rear for loading and
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unloading, and in most models, also a large split-hatch round opening in the passenger compartment roof. There are no firing ports for the troops carried - British Army doctrine has always been to dismount from vehicles to fight.
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in an incomplete state and brought to completion in theatre, along with the rest of the
Bulldog fleet, in a joint venture between BAE Systems Land Systems and 6 Battalion Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
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maintenance carrier with a crew of three and a hydraulically driven crane with a lifting capacity of 3,050 kg.
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FV437 Pathfinder vehicle - based on the FV432 with integral buoyancy and other waterjets - prototyped only.
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Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the United
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Challenger
Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle (CRARRV)
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6x6 vehicle was selected instead for load carrier role.
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More upgraded
Armoured Personnel Carriers for the Army
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FV430 vehicles, if armed, often have a pintle-mounted
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289:FV436 Command and control - some fitted with
264:FV433 Field Artillery, Self-Propelled "Abbot"
1101:Armoured personnel carriers of the Cold War
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485:British Defence Logistic Organisation News
542:British Bulldog in Basra - Strategy Page
369:, relieving some of the pressure on the
325:for extra armoured vehicles for use in
279:"Carrier, Maintenance, Full Tracked" -
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309:FV439 Signals vehicle - many variants
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402:List of FV series military vehicles
286:FV435 Wavell communications vehicle
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1018:FV434 Armoured Maintenance Vehicle
246:FV431 Armoured load carrier - one
67:5.25 m (17 ft 3 in)
16:British armoured fighting vehicles
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83:2.28 m (7 ft 6 in)
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323:urgent operational requirement
232:L7 general purpose machine gun
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422:"Bulldog & FV430 series"
59:15.3 t (15.1 long tons)
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977:Combat engineering vehicles
753:Armoured personnel carriers
478:"Bulldogs are on their way"
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242:British Army nomenclature:
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1000:Armoured recovery vehicles
838:Infantry mobility vehicles
734:Fox reconnaissance vehicle
594:armoured fighting vehicles
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194:series covers a number of
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953:Self-propelled anti-air
678:Reconnaissance vehicles
356:warheads, such as the
891:Shorland Armoured Car
557:Website with pictures
352:capable of defeating
729:Saladin armoured car
344:package designed by
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990:Trojan AVRE
938:FV433 Abbot
859:Mastiff PPV
846:Panther CLV
809:Saracen APC
363:Mastiff PPV
335:Afghanistan
168:Operational
142:Rolls-Royce
106:12.7 mm max
1090:Categories
1041:FV301 tank
853:variants:
814:Humber Pig
625:Charioteer
408:References
159:Suspension
868:Husky TSV
635:Chieftain
630:Conqueror
620:Centurion
462:8 January
295:Cymbeline
270:built by
248:prototype
127:Secondary
91:2 minimum
965:tracked
873:Foxhound
598:post-war
592:British
523:citation
396:See also
348:company
339:applique
238:Vehicles
129:armament
118:7.62 mm
114:armament
908:FV1620
802:Wheeled
793:Warthog
783:Stormer
761:Tracked
717:Wheeled
686:Tracked
668:Warrior
596:of the
373:fleet.
371:Warrior
346:Israeli
272:Vickers
218:Warrior
198:of the
120:L7 GPMG
1066:MBT-80
1034:export
967:Rapier
851:Cougar
788:Viking
739:Jackal
381:Dorset
350:Rafael
214:CVR(T)
146:240 hp
138:Engine
102:Armour
80:Height
64:Length
25:FV430
943:AS-90
824:Boxer
819:Saxon
768:FV432
703:Sabre
615:Comet
607:Tanks
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436:6 May
358:RPG-7
297:radar
277:FV434
258:FV432
204:FV432
192:FV430
170:range
72:Width
708:Ajax
529:link
516:2017
464:2008
438:2014
365:and
333:and
331:Iraq
281:REME
190:The
112:Main
88:Crew
56:Mass
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