The Warrior, formally the FV510 and originally developed under the designation MCV-80, is a British tracked infantry fighting vehicle designed by GKN Defence to replace the older FV430 series of armored personnel carriers, with production beginning in 1986 and the vehicle entering British Army service in 1987. Armed with a 30mm RARDEN cannon and a coaxial machine gun and carrying a crew of three plus seven dismounted infantry, the Warrior was built around the British doctrine that an infantry vehicle's job is to deliver troops under armor protection to their objective rather than to fight mounted, and it accordingly has no firing ports for infantry to shoot from inside the hull. More than a thousand Warriors were built, the British Army received nearly eight hundred, and Kuwait purchased a further batch of modified Desert Warrior variants, with the type seeing combat service in the Gulf War, the Iraq War and Afghanistan.
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Classification
Service Status Weapon ClassInfantry fighting vehicle 1 Introduced Year Weapon Class
Weapon Class (category) FAQs
Why does the Warrior have no firing ports in its hull?
It follows the British view that the vehicle delivers infantry to the objective rather than fighting mounted.
The Warrior was built around British thinking that an armored personnel carrier or infantry fighting vehicle exists to carry troops under protection to the objective and then give firepower support once they have dismounted. Because the infantry were not meant to fight from inside the vehicle, the hull has no ports for them to fire through.
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Iraq War, Wars Source MilitaryFactory.com: FV510 Warrior
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Sources
1. Warrior tracked armoured vehicle, Wikipedia
Infobox, Type field
Infantry fighting vehicle
Article text, production and delivery
The first production vehicle was handed over to the Army in May 1987 to 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards
Lead section
The first production vehicle was handed over to the Army in May 1987 to 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, and from 1988 to 1990 four more armoured infantry battalions in the British Army of the Rhine were converted to the new vehicle.
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Caliber attribute (warrior-infantry-fighting-vehicle)
Armed with a 30mm RARDEN cannon and a coaxial machine gun and carrying a crew of three plus seven dismounted infantry, the Warrior was built around the British doctrine that an infantry vehicle's job is to deliver troops under armor protection to their objective rather than to fight mounted, and it accordingly has no firing ports for infantry to shoot from inside the hull.
View the SourceWikidata: FV510 Warrior
Wikidata Q589212, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Wikipedia: FV510 Warrior
Operated By: British Army, Wikipedia article textQuote, Operated By: British Army, Wikipedia article text
The project was begun in 1972; GKN Defence won the production contract in 1984 and the Warrior was accepted for service with the British Army in November 1984.
MilitaryFactory.com: FV510 Warrior
MilitaryFactory.comUsed In: Gulf War, Description
The Warrior is an adaptable and reliable platform that has since proven successful in military actions during the 1991 Gulf War, throughout the Bosnia and Kosovo conflict and, most recently, in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Used In: Iraq War, Description
The Warrior is an adaptable and reliable platform that has since proven successful in military actions during the 1991 Gulf War, throughout the Bosnia and Kosovo conflict and, most recently, in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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