Editing Land Rover (section)

=== Military use ===
[[File:Commandeered British Land Rover Pyongyang.jpg|thumb|British Land Rover near [[Pyongyang]], November 1950, during the [[Korean War]]]]
[[File:1st Armoured Division Land Rover.jpg|thumb|A mired Land Rover of the [[1st (United Kingdom) Division|1st Armoured Division]] being extracted during the [[Gulf War]]]]
[[File:106mm land rover.JPG|thumb|Ex-[[Australian Army]] [[Land Rover Series|Land Rover Series 2]] "[[Technical (vehicle)|gunbuggy]]", with an [[M40 recoilless rifle]] used in the anti-tank role, at the [[Australian War Memorial]]]]
[[File:Bermuda Regiment IS Training.jpg|thumb|Defenders of the [[Bermuda Regiment]], 1994]]
[[File:2june 2007 087e.jpg|thumb|Land Rovers on parade with the [[Italian Army]], [[Marina Militare|Navy]] and [[Aeronautica Militare|Air Force]], June 2007]]
Various Land Rover models have been used in a military capacity, most notably by the [[British Army]] and [[Australian Army]]. Modifications may include military "blackout" lights, heavy-duty suspension, uprated brakes, 24&nbsp;volt electrics, convoy lights, electronic suppression of the ignition system, blackout curtains and mounts for special equipment and small arms. Dedicated military models have been produced such as the [[Land Rover 101 Forward Control|101 Forward Control]] and the air-portable [[Land Rover 1/2 ton Lightweight|1/2&nbsp;ton Lightweight]]. Military uses include light utility vehicle; communications platform; weapon platform for [[recoilless rifle]]s, [[Anti-tank]] (e.g. [[BGM-71 TOW|TOW]] or [[M40 recoilless rifle]]) / [[Surface-to-air missile|Surface-to-Air]] Guided Weapons or machine guns; ambulances and workshops. The Discovery has also been used in small numbers, mostly as liaison vehicles.

Two models that have been designed for military use from the ground up are the 101 Forward Control from the early 1970s and the Lightweight or Airportable from the late 1960s. The latter was intended to be transported under a helicopter. The [[Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service (United Kingdom)|Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service]] (RAFMRS) teams were early users in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and their convoys of Land Rovers and larger military trucks are a sight often seen in the mountain areas of the United Kingdom. Originally RAFMRS Land Rovers had blue bodies and bright yellow tops, to be better seen from above. In 1981, the colour scheme was changed to green with yellow stripes. More recently, vehicles have been painted white, and are issued with fittings similar to civilian UK [[Mountain Rescue]] teams.

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An adaptation of Land Rovers to military purposes is the "Pink Panther" models. Approximately 100 Series IIA models were adapted to [[reconnaissance]] use by British special operations forces the [[Special Air Service|SAS]]. For desert use they were often painted pink, hence the name. The vehicles were fitted with among other gear a [[Solar compass|sun compass]], machine guns, larger fuel tanks and smoke dischargers. Similar adaptations were later made to Series IIIs and 90/110/Defenders.<ref name="LMS">Bob Morrison: ''Land Rovers in military service'', Brooklands Books 1993, {{ISBN|1-85520-205-0}}</ref>

The Australian Army adapted the [[Land Rover Series]] 2 into the [[Long Range Patrol Vehicle]] for use by the [[Special Air Service Regiment (Australia)|Special Air Service Regiment]] and as an anti-tank "gunbuggy" fitted with an [[M40 recoilless rifle]].

The [[75th Ranger Regiment]] of the [[United States Army]] also adapted twelve versions of the Land Rover that were officially designated the [[Ranger Special Operations Vehicle]].

Series and Defender models have also been armoured. The most widespread of these is the [[Shorland armoured car|Shorts Shorland]], built by [[Shorts Brothers]] of [[Belfast]]. The first of these were delivered in 1965 to the [[Royal Ulster Constabulary]], the Northern Ireland police force. They were originally {{convert|109|in|mm|adj=on}} wheelbase models with an armoured body and a turret from the [[Ferret armoured car]]. By 1990, there had been more than 1,000 produced.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shorlandsite.com/ |title=The Shorland Site |publisher=Clive Elliott |access-date=29 December 2012 |archive-date=5 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105030450/http://www.shorlandsite.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In the 1970s, a more conventional armoured Land Rover was built for the Royal Ulster Constabulary in Wales called the Hotspur. The [[Land Rover Tangi]] was built by the Royal Ulster Constabulary's own vehicle engineering team during the 1990s. The British Army has used various armoured Land Rovers, first in Northern Ireland but also in more recent campaigns. They first added protective panels to Series General Service vehicles, the Vehicle Protection Kit (VPK). 

Later they procured the Glover Webb APV and finally the Courtaulds (later NP Aerospace) Composite Armoured Vehicle, commonly known as [[SNATCH Land Rover|Snatch]]. These were originally based on heavy-duty V8 110 chassis but some have recently been re-mounted on new chassis from [[Otokar]] of Turkey and fitted with diesel engines and air-conditioning for Iraq. Although these now have more in common with the [[Land Rover Wolf|'Wolf']] (Defender XD) Land Rovers that many mistakenly confuse them with, the Snatch and the Wolf are different vehicles.

The most radical conversion of a Land Rover for military purposes was the Centaur [[half-track]]. It was based on a Series III with a V8 engine and a shortened belt drive from the [[Alvis Scorpion]] light [[tank]]. A small number was manufactured, and they were used by Ghana, among others.

The Land Rover is used by military forces throughout the world. The current generation of Land Rover used by British Army, the Snatch 2, have upgraded and strengthened chassis and suspension compared to civilian-specification vehicles. There is also the Land Rover WMIK (weapon mounted installation kit) used by British Army. The WMIK consists of a driver, a raised gun, usually a Browning heavy machine gun or a grenade machine gun, this used for ground support, and a GPMG (general-purpose machine gunner) located next to the driver, this used for vehicle protection.