petop

They are a lot more. But you have to consider the "core" version which is the one you see in UK and Germany and the ones that deploy. Those with Radios, electronic gizmos and armour....well start asking Fort Knox for a supermarket trolley and 15mins in the gold vault!!!

Sorry to resurrect this thread but having taken the new Support Vehicle to Beaulieu Motor Museum at a Mil Veh display last year i know a bit or 2 about the wheeled UOR's.

Actually its not really the thickness of armour but what its made up of. The level of protection and what it can sustain is classified but the thickness doesnt really help anyone.

The thickness of armour from WW2 in armoured vehicles will be thicker than armour in some modern wheeled vehicles yet the modern stuff can withstand greater explosive force.

The UOR demo days are there to give the public, the taxpayers, what their money is being spent on and enabling the Government to say that they are spending loads (literally) to equip soldiers out on Ops. Due to my job i saw today PANTHER, MASTIFF, RIDGEBACK, EPLS, MAN SV and loads of others being readied for Afghanistan. All costing a pretty penny.

Knowing the price of the Cargo variants, ill guess at £250,000+. And thats being conservative.

Knowing a bit about the MAN trucks now in-service, the feedback from the lads using the Recovery variant is that its a pretty good truck and a massive improvement on the Foden.