Britain's answer to the M113: a fifteen-tonne tracked personnel carrier for two crew and ten men on the Rolls-Royce K60 multi-fuel of 240 hp, 52 km/h and 580 km, 5.25 m long. About 3,000 were built between 1962 and 1971.
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It has been in service since 1963 and still is, which makes it one of the longest-serving armoured vehicles anywhere; the fleet peaked at almost 2,500 in the 1980s. The FV430 series around it ran from the FV431 load carrier, of which one prototype was made before the Alvis Stalwart took the job, to the FV433 Abbot self-propelled gun, the FV436 command vehicle with Green Archer or Cymbeline radar, the FV438 Swingfire missile launcher and the FV439 signals vehicles.
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Factory colours
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: researched
