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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: Armoured Vehicles in the Gulf -- APCs (5 of 12)
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Date: 4 Feb 91 06:59:47 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

United Kingdom:  Spartan, Scorpion-based APC
Used by:
	United Kingdom
Description:
	Small APC and Recce vehicle, part of the CVR (ie, Scorpion) series.
	In service 1977.
Stats:
	3 crew, 4 infantrymen, NBC protected
	2.2m high, 2m wide, 5m long, 8,000 kg, 
	87kph,  640km range, 195hp gasoline engine
	1 * 7.62mm mg
Variants:  Strike ATGW (swingfire), Samson recovery veh, Sultan cmd veh,
	Samaritan ambulance, Stormer (longer chassis MICV with turreted 20,
	30 or 90mm gun)  
Comparative values (from Dunnigan, ``How to Make War'': a Merkava has a
firepower and protection of 10):
	firepower: 2?
	protection:  2?
	comfort: ?
	ground pressure: ?
	hp/wt:  ?
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James F. Dunnigan, ``How to Make War'', New York (William Morrow) 1988.
Charles Messinger, ``Tanks and other Armoured Vehicles'', London (Penguin), 1990.
R.G. Lee, ``Introduction to Battlefield Weapons Systems'', Oxford (Pergamon), 1981 [UF 500 L43]
Richard E. Simpkin, `Antitank'', Oxford (Pergamon), 1982
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