FV721 'Fox' Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance | BRITISH SCOUT VEHICLE
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- The FV721 Fox Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled) (CVR(W)) was a 4 × 4 armoured car manufactured by ROF Leeds, deployed by the British Army as a replacement for the Ferret scout car and the Saladin armoured car. The Fox was introduced into service with B Squadron, 1st Royal Tank Regiment (Aliwal Barracks, Tidworth) in 1975 and withdrawn from service 1993-94.
Development of the Fox began in 1965 and the following year the Daimler company of Coventry, which was building the Ferret scout car at the time, was awarded a contract to build 15 prototype vehicles. The first was completed in November 1967 and the last in April 1969. User trials began in 1968 and the first official announcement concerning the Fox was made in October 1969.
The following year the Fox was accepted for service with the British Army and a production order was placed with Royal Ordnance Leeds.
Production began in 1972 and the first vehicle was completed in May 1973. Production of the Fox has been completed at Royal Ordnance Leeds.
It had a crew of three and had a low profile rotating turret armed with a 30 mm L21 RARDEN cannon, which was manually fed with three-round clips; 99 rounds were carried. A coaxial L37A2 7.62 mm machine gun was mounted with 2,600 rounds. The weapons were not stabilised. This turret was also equipped with a set of two 4-barreled smoke dischargers. The vehicle had a combat weight of 6.75 tonnes and was designed to be air-portable. The Fox had aluminium armor and was fitted with a flotation screen. It lacked protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. Powered by a Jaguar 4.2-litre 6-cylinder petrol engine, the Fox was one of the fastest vehicles of its type.
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Well it's not a tank like you are used to! But this thing is so damn nippy! It's like a spicy van with a gun on it! I love it! If I couldnt buy a CVR(T) (my dream!!) then I would probably aim for something like this haha! Hope you are all staying safe and sane and thanks for stopping by! Have a awesome day! :-) Matt
I want to ls swap one....lol
no you have an awesome day
Since I am colorblind do you know what type of jobs are available to me?(I'm from the US if that helps)
@@devilbub8709Social science.
That thumbnail is damn sexy!
Giggidy
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I was a driver in a FOX, great vehicle and no problem with shedding tracks!
My friend in the UK wanted to buy one as his daily driver and that’s the only reason why I know about it
It's expensive to run, not a good daily driver and replacing tyres is expensive.
@@milanondrak5564 so is a Hummer but some people still use them
@@catbear3294 but you don't need a firearms licence to drive a hummer.
@@milanondrak5564 true, but this has a +100 coolness value so there's that
@@catbear3294 very true.
I drove the Fox in the Queen’s Own Yeomanry, a TA regiment based in Chester in the late 70’s I loved driving it.
Served on the Fox with Cyclops 2RTR in Germany in the late 70s and early 1980s. Achived speeds of over 90mph but the Fox was very dangerous to drive due to being top heavy. This resaulted in a number turning over and the crews being killed or badly injured.
Yeah my brother was one that was killed in a accident in Portugal in 1981 he was the commander of the vehicle
Happy memories in the Queens own yeomanry 1982, great vehicle..
World of Tanks taught me that cars cross any terrain with no reduction in speed or mobility.
this makes me want to start a channel where we give WOT the myth-busters treatment. "Can your main gun act as a field expedient turbo button?" "can aluminum wheels take a 105 shell and not only absorb the damage completely, but function at 60% efficiency afterward?"
Dont forget driving at 90-100km/h over potato fields and hitting targets at 300-400m range.
Games like WOT and WarThunder made by the russian are just crap
@@Slycarlo I think WOT and WarThunder is not comparable game. I played both and War thunder is very good at handling those physics(I'm not saying perfect but better than other game)
Rhino 120 agreed WOT is much more of a fast paced arcade feeling type of game and War Thunder gives me more immersion feeling more realistic and the ability for using planes help with that
Glad you pointed out that it was derived from the Ferret, because the first words out of my mouth was "That's a Ferret with a bigger turret."
Same here buddy~ used widely in Malaya / Malaysia back then but was in the GPMG config.
I'm currently helping with a prototype Fox, quite a lot of the running gear came from the MK4 and 5 Ferret.
Apparently although it looks like a Ferret body, it’s actually bigger, and an all new design
The "giggity" at the mention of 69 is classic easter egg for Family Guy fans! Nice way to sneak that in Mat!😆
And at 2:05 we can see the tactical mk2 camperwagon on the left hand side 🤣🤣🤣 Matt please do a vid on this under represented hardware
10:00 Driver “Hello there, we just came in for a spot of tea, if you wouldn’t mind?”
Let's hope that punching thru one brick wall did not ruined the whole house. That would kinda sad for the dwellers...
@@HanSolo__
If it was test driving at high speeds the wall probably did not belong to a civilian house or garden.
@@germanvisitor2 Yeah. It could be colonel's house and his wife's precious garden...
Designers: ok so let's take a 4x4 car
British army: right
Designers: and we'll put a 50 call on it right
British army: right
Designers: and then let's put a big turret with a 30mm on top
British army: wait what
Designers: and we'll call it the fox
British army: sold
Wait till you ve heard about the aml 90
@@gasupplisson the aml 90 is what happens when France wants a armoured car. But it needs to be able to fight t62s
@@derekhenschel3191 best way to describe it
@@derekhenschel3191
No no no
The AML90 is what the franch need to out ran the t62 in a fight
Fox never had a. 50 cal on it.
It used the 7.62mm GPMG as its Co-axial Machine gun
11:00 "I am kinda glad it never seen combat" - well, so are ex-soviet BRDM-2 crews.
The 14,5mm is a monster of a HMG, but it is NOT a cannon, thought neither vehicles armor would have stopped the other's main gun.
The most dangerous feature of the Fox was it's radio and the map reading skills of the crew. Remember is was purely a reconnaissance vehicle, locating and reporting on the enemy without being detected. The 30mm canon was a nice addition. A capable beast and in 1991 the same weapon mounted on a tracked vehicle was engaging and destroying T55 tanks. The projectiles used were specially issued.
@@gusgone4527 Agreed - the most likely shooting combat scenario was for the Fox that it/they run into a Warsaw Pact recon unit, that is why BRDM crew are "kinda glad"
I just saw one in person at the museum of American armor. Out of all the armored vehicles there, I was just dying to drive this one.
Wow this thing was really cute look at it's oversized turrent and small chassis it look like a Aml 90
I'm always getting this confused with South Africa's Eland.
She's like my edgy sister in the family, the only difference is she swears 30 mm.
loved to play that vehicle in armored warfare; among the few fellow alpha testers its nickname was bambi on ice
Yee. Loved it and the other cars.
Operated in one of these for a number of years. Pro's, went like stink in a straight line. Great gun. Smoke dischargers were the right size to store cans of beer in. BV next to the driver so always had something warm to hand. Cons, armour as effective as a skin off a custard, spent more time trying to repair or waiting for REME to attend and repair, than driving. Very top heavy and easy to roll, had a colleague killed by a roll over. Once you got it going it didn't want to stop.Far preferred driving the Ferret or Spartan.
Served on one of these in the late 80’s one of the last regular army regiments to use. It was beautiful, fast and fun. But terrifying on corners 😳
It caused injuries and a number of fatalities.
Jaguar J60 petrol engine, went like shit off a shovel.
We did (TALO) Tactical Air Landing operations - where we would be in an Hercules would fly into an hostile runway. As it hit the deck we’d drive out and capture the runway.
It was a dream
The Fox was (mainly) intended for TA units whose role was to defend BAOR rear areas (MSRs, depots and bridges etc.) against Warsaw Pact air assault. It was fast enough for seriously rapid road movement in theatre (and could drive easily from UK bases to Germany). The Rarden cannon could smash BRDMs and other Soviet airborne vehicles. Although the Fox was a recce vehicle, the crew could wreak havoc from a position of cover with the GMPG and the Rarden.
Could you do one on it's more experienced cousin, The Eland, from South Africa? Which saw almost constant war from 75 - late 80's.
The licensed production of the Aml 90
It mainly fought T-34s right?
I was fully Fox trained back in the70’s with the TAVR great to drive.
Having done my time in a Stryker, id love to give these small scout cars a try.
It looks like a fun vehicle to go off-roading on. Not to mention have a little target practice on some broken down cars. 😎👍
Thanks for the education. Nice choice of tune-age at the start. You've been playing some great music in recent videos.
Just watched this one Matt and I am still reeling in disbelief that you hadn't been to Bovo Museum yet.. worth the visit just to get that shiver down your spine when up against a Konigstiger.. fekin battleship on tracks bejezuz.. ;)
What I most remember about this vehicle was if the glass windshield wasn’t on, it was like operating in a wind tunnel, excruciating in winter months.
Yeah, but no different from the likes of the ferret and Saladin. Try goggles? They worked.
I’m still stressed out at the idea of reconnaissance guys crewing the Jackal shipped from the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq to the snowy plains of Eastern Europe.
Brrrrrrr🥶🥶
Did a excercise with some of these in the 1980's they were generally very quiet but made a strange whistling sound.
i was a crewman on one of these and found it great fun, even boeslager didnt deter us
Mat, you have to do the pilgrimage to Bovington, you will regret not going for the rest of your life.
Having worked on armored vehicles in the British army I reckon mats been to bovington before, maybe many times.
Hawley_jb 202 Hi Hawley, you sound like an ex REME so you may be right, but Mat has never said that he had been, so he could always make just one more pilgrimage before his balls shrink in that Canadian winter!
"A Celica is better"--Scotty Kilmer
True. A Hilux even much better.
silverpairaducks endless money pit
Tanks need Japanese engines!
I drove this in the seventies. Driving on UK motorways was another experience, fellow car drivers just couldn't get how this 4.2 litre lump of aluminium could overtake them. It was great to drive and the Rarden cannon was pure s*x to fire on the range. Probs a bit too top heavy, but after the Saladin and Ferret, this was luxury. Oh, and it's on-board cooker could be sorting out your 'chicken supreme' as you were motoring along. Sad to see it pass into history.
Why is the RAC always focused on the onboard cooking and tea making facilities?🤣🤣🤣🤷🏾♂️
The rarden was a fabulous weapon
dad used to drive one in berlin early 90's, got a photo of him hanging out of the commanders hatch :)
I still want to see you do a video on the ripsaw tracked vehicle.
The US Army has been doing some testing on them. I couldn’t say what they’re thinking of using them for but a scout could be possible.
Great video as always, Matt😊
Stay safe
I know this comment was 3 years ago, but the guys who made the Ripsaw had a whole T.V. show and everything, they did a lot of other stuff too, I think it's called Black Ops Brothers.
Really love this thing on Rise of Nation, always upgrade it first when im on modern age
I spent a few days in one of those things with the North Irish Horse. They have a strong cavalry tradition of being aggressive and crazy. It is a simple vehicle, just the 2 weapons and the big thermal imager. It was fun on the motorways. It would work fine for going out to look for the enemy, although the Horse intend to destroy the enemy in the process :).
I WANT one! At that height it'll pass under the barrier frame at work. AND NOBODY will want to park right next to it in the car park either!!!
The sides might get scratched from other doors, but it won't get any dents THAT'S for sure!
One of my favorite vehicles when I played Armored Warfare. A blast to play ;-)
Sad to say, i was driving along a main road and a convoy of these crossen the road in front of me, but the last one then stopped in the middle of the road, as we pulled up and stopped, we could see one of them had turned over , but by the time i got to it, one of the guys said the turrent had pinned one the men under it, I jumped back in the car turned round and shot back about a mile to were the main unit was camp just off the main road and got a medic unit to follow me back, but by the time we got back he was dead, i then spent a few hours there filling out paperwork with the police and MOD, and was later told the fox had a record of turning over and that this could sometimes be at as low as 20MHP. The Army stopped using them shortly after and later a variation of the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance featured the turret from a Fox reconnaissance vehicle mounted on the hull of a Scorpion and was called the Sabre.
The beauty of the Fox was it permitted reserve units to practice the reconnaissance role in peace time, very cost effectively. The Queens Own Yeomanry being prime examples. Had the Cold War turned hot. Those regiments would have been tasked with rear area reconnaissance duties and used as BCR's for their tracked equivalent units. The speed of the Fox was it's only real defence but that 30mm canon could give a nasty bite. During 1991 Gulf War the 30mm Rarden on different platforms, was engaging and destroying T55's.
Love watching your videos, brother. Particularly enjoying the Recce stuff!
Ah, the Fox. Happy memories. If you took the speed governor off you could get it up to ~110mph on the Autobahn. It was genuinely terrifying at those speeds.
Useful if the Soviet 3rd Shock Army decided to have a jolly across the border, moving rearward at speed would have been a life saver!
Enjoyed your presentation of what deffo looks like a fun vehicle to drive and own .
Was still in use by TA Yeomanry units in the 1990’s. I was on exercise (TA) in the mid 90’s when some of these joined us in support
Matsimus if you want to check one out there’s three or four here in Texas. They’re amazing vehicles. Literal sports cars on wheels with armor
It's the miata of tanks
What city?
orinplays south DFW Texas.
@@kcimb cool im from Waco I'll have to check it out thanks!
Want this in Squad. Now. I can already see how much this thing would flip over on railroad tracks.
It didn't quite see combat, although we had them in N.Ireland with 2nd Tanks around 1980. I remember driving through Strabane in one on the way to the ranges at Magilligan thinking it would be a mistake for the IRA to take on one of these even though we didn't carry ammo for the Rarden, only the GPMG. The Rarden was good - we only used practice rounds ( Aluminium ) but even that would go through the side armour of a Ferret and right through the engine block! The Tankies were very good, they always saved a few rounds at the end of a shoot for us REME to have a go!
Awesome little vehicle. (just a random comment for the youtube thingy) Edit: For the PC issues: If the Motherboard is failing, replace the PSU with a good one while you're at it. Corsair, Seasonic BeQuiet are recommended brands.
Gotta love the fox, like a toddler with a Tyson punch!
Awesome video! Maybe you could make a video about more reconnaissance vehicles in Europe of this day, like the German/Dutch Fennek! Pretty interesting.
A couple of interesting facts, it could go backward as fast as forward ( about 55mph). It didn't had a reverse gear, instead had a direction change lever so had all the same gears to go backwards. It also had a pre-select gearbox so if you knew you were gonna get slowed or bogged down you could pick the next gear ahead if time and just stamp on the gear change pedal as it started to lose momentum.
As promised.. Every time you post a video on equipment I'll watch and LIKE!, 👍👍
Actually. this might be a contender for the cutest military vehicle, up there with the CV 33 and the Wiesel.
And the aml 90?
The dude head down in the rotating turret... I expect it to be a monty python skit.
Fantastic turret btw.
Brilliant bit of kit.. worked on a few lol.. stay safe
Gosh I love this little guy.
been entranced by British armored cars since first seen the Ferret, wish I could own one
Not bad, few things, fox started by Daimler was initially in its wooden model form called heavy ferret, Daimler had a major sulk when this was taken of them. she start a lot earlier however during the AVR projects which led to CVRT and CVRW. Fox and vixen are sisters rather than an adaption of. vixen was apart from ergonomically terrible deemed rather pointless to have two hulls when one could do the same thing if needed. several systems were proposed, the 25 mm was not the reproduction rather an export option as the 30 mm is planned from the outset although the RARDEN then had a 5 shot gravity clip. others inc milan as mentioned, blowpipe, stars-streak - aka starfox, and even consideration for a 90 mm and 120 mm wombat titled foxbat. these were discussed in an ORC meeting but no further work done. FOX's fate was ultimately sealed due to her predisposition to kill her own crew. after 22 serious injuries including 9 fatalities it was assed in detail by Alvis and FVRDE reps and it was found due to her heavier than planned weight in the rear she would under-steer, if drivers tried to correct this she would over-steer and flip. after the assessment it was noted that FOX should be immediately phased out of service.
The Fox was my favorite vehicle in Armored Warfare alongside the Weasel
The Irish Defense Forces used to have a bunch of these back in the 70's along with about 15 scorpions. It was funny watching the Irish Defense Forces on one side of the N.I. border and the B.A. on the other side using the same equipment.
The story about the Fox that went into a German farmers dining room was covered in the book Armoured Farmers, if I remember correctly the farmer started brandishing a shotgun at the 5 RTR squaddies and chased them down the road.
I imagine it's very very quiet too when creeping about at night,
Vevy, vevy quiet....
"I hope you learned something about the Fox"
Everything I knew about it previously came from Wargame. I learned a lot.
It has the potential to become an excellent ambush/infiltration vehicle.
Love the Fox, bit top heavy and could be a bit arse twitching on bends at speed lol. Used to own a Ferret, got some strange looks in Tesco's car park though..
These vehicles were phased out of the army because they were dangerous for the crew. On throttling back at a corner the power steering was ineffective and the tendency to go straight on. This was experienced back in the 70/80s when a fox drove from Lulworth camp to Bovington camp, the crew sitting on the turret were cut in half and the driver sustained serious head injuries. I know the civilian mechanic who had to clear up inside. Also they were top heavy and one Fox turned over killing a Army Cadet, such rides were banned.
Quite Adorable little Tunk
Fast little Vroom
Very Inspiring Design
Could Work Pretty Great with some Modernizations
It seems strange to me, that so called reconnaissance vehicles today are 3 to 4 times the size of the Fox. I would have thought by now, new metal and ceramic deposits could create a vehicle as nimble and as hard to see, as a fox. Bigger is not always better, and combatants is not always as important as concealment...
Seem like something the british would slap together in a hurry to have something - cheaply.
But I like the idea of a 30 mm for smacking bad boys bottom.
The insane speed sounds like something for the german autobahn.
Am I completely incorrect, or did Rhodesia not use these during the bush war?
Matsimus says they never saw conflict...
My favorite hot rod, having one run thru your living room is probably better then a MIG 23 landing in your German living room.
used to crew these - fun to shoot but could be a death trap, orders were that the turret crew should not fix the seat in the top position after a couple of people were chopped in half when the the Fox toppled over.
Fast to drive - no better vehicle for running away from the enemy as long as you were on a road, could do 70 mph in reverse.
I love when you do videos on wheeled vehicles!
i did trials on these, first regiment to use them, 1RTR
Well, I was sold when I heard Jaguar Engine & Gearbox - Specially if they're from the 70s :P
It's a recon vehicle primarily. But you put a soldier in a small vehicle and put a cannon on it and well they are going to jump at the opportunity to brass something up.
I have always been a fan of the light scout vehicle. if used properly it can be quit effective. I always envisioned this as a quick reaction vehicle. To get to an area fast to give a little more fire support to infantry. At the very least it's not a barn door
Nice one Matt, I did 4yrs in these and Spartan 👍
Yes, please do more videos on light armored vehicles!
Thanks!
How about a video on the armored Defender 110?
1969-giggity!!!
It does looks cool, like a baby tank-killer..
Well it is a Shaguar!!!
"Giggity"...well done Sir.
Great stuff. Keep up the good work!
Dear Decimus Meridius...a slight correction at 11:13 theyr were actually used in "combat" even though regional. Nigerian Army used in Civil War and even recently against Boko Haram and earlier with UN colours in ECOMOG contingent in Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau. There you can see the effect and value for money of a 30mm cannon mounted on a simplified and relatively cheap platform. Couple of dozens rounds at 3000 meters will freeze some bald response from hard-minded knuckleheads, well beyond range of PKs, Dushkas and naturally RPG. More or less if you think of it is the natural ancestors concept of the modern TECHnikas, almost unprotected light platforms with a hell of (oftenly unaccurate!!) firepower. Of course i challenge any FOX with a Toyota Hj in terms of stability on paved and unpaved roads. Thanks for the video.
The first time I saw one of these(pictures) I thought I was looking at a AML-90 from the front.
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I got some real "the animal I have become" flashbacks
This is one smexy vehicle
looks like the old DAC which I used to cabby in cyprus late 50s
Be me,
-plan to go to Bovington tank museum on birthday
-Virus breaks out, only several cases.
-Drive from Notts to the hotel.
-Take all the precautions, basically seeing no one day today.
-Go to the museum, no one is there except the staff and two other groups of people.
-Have a great day with the museum all to yourself.
-Leave for home, go into lockdown.
-Next couple of days the museum closes until further notice.
-Be very happy you saw it before then.
Another AMAZING Video
Perfect mini-tank for Lieutenant Gruber.
I actually got to ride on one, I can't tell you which variant, but the Kenyans let me ride on top of the turret in '84. I actually wound up on my belly holding on for dear life as it seemed they went to nearly full throttle
I find it strange that I served from '68 to '93 and I never saw this.
If you preselected first gear and stamped on the gear pedal whilst on the Rev limiter it would pop a wheelie 😊
that's a huge gun
The grandkid of the Daimler
The first sports car converted to an armored vehicle. It is not good at being a sports car or an armored vehicle but can perform two functions.
Do you ever just look at a vehicle and think, "yeah thats British". This vehicle just radiates UK off of it.
Honestly, if I saw this vehicle with no background information, I would have guessed south african. I could be Rooikat's little brother.
They tried palming them off on the RAF Regiment (Late 1980's) and we were part of the evaluation team. Gav managed to write one off within 20 yards of taking it out of the gates of RAF Coltishall (He hit a corona soft drinks wagon), So we suggested just how far the M.O.D. could stick them up their arse and stuck with our scorpions! I heard the T.A. got them in the end.🤣🤣🤣
Good vid! You can buy these quite easily in the UK. There are a few about as you may know, but unsure about Canada. You have more luck in the US.
Do a vid on the Saladin. That was a top vehicle, and they should've carried on upgrading it and offering it for export.