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As you may or may not know, in recent times the Australian Army's vehicle fleet is separated in to the White Fleet and Green fleet. Initially named so because the colouring of the 2 fleets were predominantly just that. The rational between the difference is that green fleet vehicles were often military specific models that were more expensive to acquire, operate and more difficult to drive. In the army licensing system green fleet vehicles need different licences to drive. Almost all of these vehicles are 4wd as well. The Perentie Land Rovers, Unimog 4x4 and International "Acco" just to name a few. Often, if not always, these are tactical vehicles with convoy lights and other front line features. The white fleet are mostly civilian vehicles for more every day use on bases and day to day operations. They are cheaper to buy, and more familiar for their drivers, cheaper to operate and put the miles on for every day driving. Essentially it's an exercise in saving money, and a good way of doing it rather than putting miles on expensive vehicles. in 1998 Rover Australia developed a concept Light Green Vehicle (LGV) which demonstrates that a commercial model Land Rover Defender can be cost effectively configured locally to supplement the existing Perentie fleet in the role of a Truck Utility Lightweight FFR Winch MC2. The concept vehicle was developed from the base of a standard diesel manual commercial Land Rover Defender Hard Top which was locally fitted with military hardware. The idea was that the concept could be applied to most Perentie 4x4 variants, and possibly the 6x6 variants on the 130 inch wheelbase. The 130 GVM may well have been this vehicle, for more information click HERE. Whilst the concept was not taken up by the Australian Army, a subsequent version using the later TD5 engine was accepted into some limited service. More information on these vehicles can be found HERE. Two of these prototypes with subtle changes were built by Rover Australia. One surfaced on the civilian market in 2010. This appeared to be the initial prototype. The ADF Presentation about this vehicle with more information can be read here. The information and documents above are courtesy of and Copyright to Rover Australia. |
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