I recently took these (and several more photos) of this vehicle in the U.K. As can be seen, it is British Army. However its function, is as the support / transport vehicle for one of the British 'Drone' vehicles...

Can any of you identify this vehicle? Thanks, Jim

Hi Jim

Here's what I have just found :
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/muv/muv_tum.htm
It's not much but now we have a name for it....
It seems that these trucks were previously built by Dodge/Chrysler in England ("Dodge 50" series). Here's another link with more details :
http://www.dodge50.co.uk/index.htm

I've also came across an extract from a 1995 House of Commons debate in which the buying of this truck, rather than Land-Rovers, by the UK Army was call into question (most of the 846 trucks were said to be unroadworthy...)

HTH (a little...)
Frenchy

there was a problem with them being top heavy and prone to rolling these are mostly used by sig/inf/ra regts they come with either a hard body fitted for comms or as a truck for moving troops and light guns normally a light gun and it's crew will be attached to one of these,

heres some I took earlier in the year

these with the hard body are for battery control

as a gun tractor

and a battery one cammo'ed up

The vehicle in question is used for the deployment of the PHOENIX drone system...

Rear View..



The Phoenix...

the RAF use them a lot of them too, as mike says they are unpopular for being top heavy and easy to roll.

my TA unit as one, 'the chicken shed', its very rarely moved out of the garages!

cheers

joe