Alvis Stormer APC (UK) KEY RECOGNITION FEATURES • Blunt nose with sloping glacis plate, driver's position on left side, engine to right, horizontal hull top with vertical hull rear, large door opening right. Sides vertical, chamfer between sides and roof • Weapon station normally on forward part of roof with hatches to immediate rear • Suspension each side has six road wheels with drive sprocket front, idler rear, track return rollers which are sometimes covered by skirt
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Crew: 3+8 Armament: See text Ammunition: Depends on above Length: 5.27m Width: . 2.4m Width over stowage boxes: 2.764m Height with 7.62mm MG: 2.27m 0.425m Ground clearance: 12,700kg Weight, combat: Power-to-weight ratio: 19.68bhp/tonne 0.40kg/cm2 Ground pressure: Engine: Perkins T6/3544 water-cooled 6-cylinder turbocharged diesel developing 250bhp at 2,600rpm Maximum road speed: 80km/hr Maximum water 5km/hr speed (tracks): 650km Maximum road range: Fuel capacity: 405 lit Fording: 1.1m, amphibious with preparation Vertical obstacle: 0.6m Trench: 1.75m Gradient: 60% Side slope: 35% Armour: Classified Armour type: Aluminium NBC system: Optional Niqht vision equipment: Optional
In the 1970s a British Government research and development establishment built FV4333 armoured personnel carrier prototype using components of Alvis Scorpion CVR(T) range. Further development by Alvis resulted in Stormer which entered production in 1981 for export with three sold to USA for evaluation in Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) competition (subsequently won by Diesel Division, General Motors of Canada) and 25 to Malaysia, 12 of which had Helio FVT900 turret, 20mm Oerlikon Contraves cannon and 7.62mm MG and remaining vehicles had Thyssen Henschel TH-1 turret with twin 7.62mm MG. Late in 1986 British Army selected Stormer to mount Shorts Starstreak High Velocity Missile (HVM) system. This has an unmanned turret with a total of eight Starstreak SAM in ready to launch position, four either side. All versions have similar layout with driver front left, engine compartment right, troop compartment extending right to rear. Wide range of weapon stations for hull top including turrets with 7.62mm and 12.7mm MG, 20mm, 25mm or 30mm cannon up to 76mm or 90mm guns. Wide range of optional equipment including NBC system, night vision devices, flotation screen, firing ports/vision blocks, automatic transmission, land navigation system. VARIANTS Alvis has proposed wide range of roles for Stormer including air defence (with guns or missiles), engineer vehicle, recovery vehicle, ambulance, minelayer, 81mm or 120mm mortar carrier, and command/control. For Operation Desert Storm, Alvis designed and built a flatbed version of the Stormer to carry the GIAT Minotaur mine scattering system. New version, with Alliant Techsystems
