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Alvis Saladin is a armoured car originating in United Kingdom. It was built by Alvis. Current inventory lists document it in Honduras, Kenya, Mauritania.
United KingdomArmoured car
United Kingdom
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First Sudanese Civil War Six-Day War Aden Emergency Nigerian Civil War Dhofar Rebellion The Troubles Lebanese Civil War Sri Lankan Civil War Second Sudanese Civil War Maluku sectarian conflict
Crossley Motors
1954
Alvis
1958–1972
1,177
11.6 t
4.93 m (16 ft 2 in)
2.54 m (8 ft 4 in)
2.39 m (7 ft 10 in)
3
Up to 32 mm (1.3 in)
76 mm L5A1 gun with 42 rounds
2 × M1919A4 machine guns with 3,500 rounds
Rolls-Royce B80 Mk.6A, 8 cyl petrol 170 hp (127 kW)
15.5 hp/tonne
6x6 wheel
400 km (250 mi)
72 km/h (45 mph)
Honduras : 48 in service as of 2024. 72 purchased from Germany in 1984.
Mauritania : 10 in service as of 2024. 40 purchased from United Kingdom in 1990.
Nigeria : 20 Saladin Mk2 in service as of 2024. 16 purchased from the United Kingdom in 1965.
Sri Lanka : 15 operational as of 2024. 18-27 received from United Kingdom in 1971;
Tunisia : 20 received in 1965 from the United Kingdom; still in service as of 2024.
Australia : 18 received in 1960.
Bahrain : 8 purchased from the United Kingdom in 1972.
Biafra
Ghana : 15 received in 1961.
Iraq : Captured Kuwaiti vehicles, all scrapped or destroyed.
Indonesia : 69 received in 1960-61; 16 modernized.
Jordan : 130 received from 1964-67.
Kenya : 10 received in 1969.
Kuwait : 60 received in 1963-64.
Lebanon : 40 received in 1979; possibly donated by Jordan or the United Kingdom.
Libya : 40 purchased from the United Kingdom in 1960-61.
Oman : 38 purchased from the UAE and United Kingdom.
Portugal : 39. SIPRI reports 30 received in 1965.
Qatar : 30
Sierra Leone : 4 received from the United Kingdom in 1983.
Sudan : 58 received from Germany and the United Kingdom between 1961-63.
Uganda : 36
United Arab Emirates : 70 received in 1970.
United Kingdom : all retired and replaced by the FV101 Scorpion
West Germany : 97 purchased from the United Kingdom; used by the Bundesgrenzschutz .
Yemen : 15 received in 1967.
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True scale
Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Alvis Saladin equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
HondurasArmy exact named equipment holdings: FV601 Saladin. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / RECCE. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
IndonesiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: Saladin (16 upgraded). Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / RECCE. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
KenyaReported count for Alvis Saladin. Service scope: Kenya Army; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 10. Origin: United Kingdom. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
MauritaniaArmy exact named equipment holdings: Saladin. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / RECCE. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
Nigeria
Sri LankaArmy exact named equipment holdings: Saladin. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / RECCE. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
TunisiaArmy exact named equipment holdings: FV601 Saladin. Active, operational-reserve and training units excluding equipment in store; November 2025 IISS assessment. Named service only; no parent-force or national total inferred. Source role: ARMOURED FIGHTING VEHICLES / RECCE. Original estimates, ranges, reporting names, reserve, lease and employment scopes retained; nested included counts are not added. Missile-system quantities mean launchers, not rounds. No readiness, crew, carried weapon, payload, factory-production or future order count inherited.
UgandaReported count for Alvis Saladin. Service scope: Army equipment; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Retired, wholly reserve and on-order rows are excluded; the reported count retains any explicitly mixed stock scope in the quoted row. Count column(s): quantity: 36. Origin: United Kingdom. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.