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| Friday,
July 15, 2011, 11:42 AM |
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| Australian
army takes delivery of 31 new Nary patrol vehicles, named
Jackal in United Kingdom Army. |
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The
Special Forces Regiment (SAS) of Australian Army will finally
take delivery of 31 new $80 million Nary patrol vehicles,
known as Jackal,
this month – more than three years later than planned.
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Nary patrol vehicle (Source: Australian Army)
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Built
by British firm Supacat, they are known as Jackal
in British forces, which have been using them since 2009.
The Australian variant has been dogged by technical problems
including systems integration, payload, suspension and
armour problems, and will be 42 months behind schedule
when it enters service in Afghanistan later this year.
Its weight was boosted by a tonne of steel armour to almost
10 tonnes, making it too heavy to drive into Army Chinook
helicopters used to carry patrol vehicles all over Afghanistan
and Iraq.
The Nary is based on the Supacat
HMT 400 4 x 4 and 6 x 6 vehicles. It can
be fitted with an “optional” mine blast and
ballistic protection kit, mission hampers, weapons, communications,
surveillance and force protection equipment. It has two
machineguns and a grenade launcher.
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