The British Armoured Carrier Designed For The Jungle That Ended Up Defining A War In Belfast
It was drawn up in 1948 to carry British infantry through the jungles of Malaya, safe from the communist ambushes that turned unprotected trucks into coffins. Nobody who designed it imagined where it would end up. Two decades later, the same boxy six-wheeled vehicle was rolling through the streets of Belfast, and for an entire generation watching the news, its silhouette became the face of the British Army in Northern Ireland. This is the FV603 Saracen. Built by Alvis in Coventry, powered by a Rolls-Royce engine, brother to the Saladin armored car and the Ferret scout car. It carried soldiers through Malaya, Aden, Nigeria, Lebanon, South Africa, and more than thirty conflicts across half a century. It was never the fastest, the best-armed, or the most glamorous vehicle on the battlefield. It was simply the one that kept carrying its men into danger and bringing them home, for fifty years.
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