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BASE MODELUnited Kingdom

Simba (1993–97)

A light combat vehicle for export: 4×4 with a transfer box that drops it to 4×2, three crew and eight to ten men, 11.2 to 11.9 tonnes depending on the role, on the turbocharged and intercooled Perkins 210 Ti of 210 bhp. 152 were built between 1993 and 1997.

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Simba (1993–97) — A GKN Simba of the Philippine Army, 8 December 2013.Rasgo · CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗
MODEL LINESimbaBUILT BYGKN SankeyPRODUCED1993–97OPERATED INPhilippinesPRODUCTION152 by 2003LAYOUT4 wheels

The record

A prototype was shown at the Aldershot Exhibition in 1978 and again in 1982 with a 90 mm Cockerill gun. The Armed Forces of the Philippines ordered 150 — eight delivered as kits and the rest assembled at Subic Bay — and by 2003 the fleet was 123 personnel carriers, 17 ambulances, 9 infantry fighting vehicles with a 25 mm gun for the Presidential Security Group and one command vehicle.

Specification

MANUFACTURERGKN Sankey ↗
MANUFACTURED1993–97
ENGINEPerkins 210 Ti turbocharged intercooled diesel, 210 bhpPerkins 210 Ti
PRODUCTION RUN152 by 2003
COUNTRY OF ORIGINUnited Kingdom
OPERATED INPhilippines
STATUSin service
RECORD KINDBase model
MODEL LINESimba
FAMILYSimba
WHEELS4
BODY STYLEPersonnel carrier
VARIANTS1

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Body styles & colours

Factory colours

  • NATO Green

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

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Sources

  1. 1GKN Simba ↗Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-23SOURCE

Registry record updated 2026-09-23 · status: researched