The Wessex Saker Light Strike Vehicle was a

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light vehicle similar to a

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. They were produced in the late 1980s for the British Special Air Service. Design was by Wessex and

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. The frame was welded tube and power, to the rear wheels only, was from a

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1.6 litre air-cooled petrol engine. It was a two-man vehicle which could be armed with either a 7.62 mm GMPG or a 0.5 inch

M2 machine gun The M2 machine gun or Browning .50 caliber machine gun (informally, "Ma Deuce") is a heavy machine gun that was designed towards the end of World War I by John Browning. Its design is similar to Browning's earlier M1919 Browning machine gun, wh ...

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