FV101 Scorpion
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The FV101 Scorpion is a British armoured reconnaissance vehicle and light tank. It was the lead vehicle and the fire support type in the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance, CVR, family of seven armoured ve
Irish Army Scorpion CVR(T)
Scorpion advancing across the desert during the first Gulf War.
TV15000 at Bovington Tank Museum in 2017
M113 MRV in Puckapunyal Camp
FV107 Scimitar
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The FV107 Scimitar is an armoured tracked military reconnaissance vehicle formerly used by the British Army, until it was retired from active service in April 2023. It was manufactured by Alvis in Cov
FV101 Scorpion
…show of force against possible terrorist threats, e.g., Operation Marmion at Heathrow Airport in 1974. Similar operations in 2003 used the then-current Scimitar. B Squadron, Blues and Royals were airlifted and deployed into the Akrotiri and Dhekelia Sovereign Base areas, during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus…
Scimitar performing a firepower demonstration on Salisbury Plain
An overturned CVR(T) by the Murrell River.
The Scimitar in arctic conditions in 1987.