Special forces Jackal

History

The conversion stripped roof, doors and windscreen, added a stout roll bar behind the front seats, long-range tankage and extensive stowage, and provided mounts for a commander's GPMG up front with a GPMG, .50-calibre Browning, 40 mm grenade launcher or MILAN post on the rear ring; two spare wheels were carried. The name outlived the paint: by the 1991 Gulf War the vehicles wore desert sand schemes, sometimes with disruptive darker patches, rather than the famous pink of their predecessors. The DPVs made their most celebrated appearance in the 1991 Gulf War, when heavily armed columns of SAS 110s operated for weeks behind Iraqi lines hunting Scud launchers, and they returned to western Iraq during the 2003 invasion, driving search-and-destroy patrols from captured airbases.