British troops are to be equipped with ‘SAS-style’ powerful pick-up trucks which can deploy rapidly behind enemy lines.
Defence ministers have approved a £2 billion procurement to replace the Army’s veteran Land Rover fleet with more powerful trucks that can be used to operate drones and deploy electronic eavesdropping countermeasures.
Sources said that the new vehicles, which will also be heavily armed, evokes the ‘glory days’ of the SAS’s daring WW2 raids behind enemy lines – as depicted in the BBC series ‘SAS Rogue Heroes’.
Dubbed the ‘Who Dares Wins’ pick-ups after the SAS’s famous motto, the new ‘Light Military Vehicle’ (LMV) project
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