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.
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.
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
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.
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.