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FV103 Spartan

In April 2022, it became known that Great Britain is transferring 120 armored vehicles to Ukraine, of which 80 are Mastiff, Husky and Wolfhound MRAP Mine Protected vehicles. The other 40 vehicles are combat reconnaissance vehicles, including the Spartan, as well as Samaritan ambulances , Sultan armored command vehicles and Samson armored recovery vehicles. Samaritan is an armored ambulance designed to transport six wounded. Sultan is the command and control machine of the British Army. The car accommodates 5-6 crew members - a commander, a driver, a radio operator and watchmen. The rear is expandable with an attached tent. Armament is a 7.62 mm machine gun. The Samson repair and evacuation machine is designed for the recovery of wheeled and tracked vehicles.

The FV103 Spartan is a tracked armored personnel carrier that entered service with the British Army in 1978. It was developed as an APC variant of the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance family. The armored personnel carrier can carry up to seven people, including three crew members. Armed with one 7.62 mm machine gun. The mass of Spartan is 10 tons. It is powered by a Jaguar 4.2 xk petrol engine, can reach speeds of up to 96 km/h and has a range of 510 kilometres. In total, about 1,000 such cars were produced.

A batch of FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers, purchased at the expense of benefactors, arrived in Ukraine in December 2022. The armored vehicles were delivered by the Petro Poroshenko Foundation along with the volunteers of the Sprava Hromad NGO. Poroshenko announced that this first batch of armored personnel carriers will be deployed to the area of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka.

Ukrainian Air Assault Forces will probably be the ones reinforced with armored personnel carriers. “The first Spartans are in Ukraine! And soon they will be near Bakhmut and Avdiyivka. Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, receive the reinforcements,” Petro Poroshenko said 14 December 2022.

On 09 November 2022, it was reported that six CVR(T) armored vehicles were shipped from Great Britain to Ukraine. According to the data of the State Service for Export Control of Ukraine, the first batch includes FV105 Sultan command and control vehicles and FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers. The first batch of CVR(T) armored vehicles, which the Poroshenko Foundation and volunteers of the Sprava Hromad NGO, purchased in Great Britain, were sent to Ukraine.

Also, documents and licenses for the delivery of 8 more armored vehicles of the CVR(T) series are currently in the works. " 6 armored vehicles out of a total of 14 contracted - assault and reconnaissance Spartan, command Sultan and medical Samaritan - will soon be in the Armed Forces. The other day, we finally received a Ukrainian import license ," Poroshenko said.

All cars have been completely overhauled, restored and serviced. These are the conditions for the purchase of this particular equipment, without repair the price was even lower. At the auctions of the British Ministry of Defense, negotiated for a month and a half, without intermediaries and intermediaries of intermediaries, the armored cars wach cost 29,500 pounds.

In November 2022 the charitable fund of Serhiy Prytula announced a collection for the purchase of 50 FV103 "Spartan" armored personnel carriers. The 236 million hryvnias collected in a day and a half should be enough for 60 British armored personnel carriers, but the exact price of the equipment in the fund cannot be named. Prytula emphasized that the Ukrainian military is in need of tracked vehicles, especially in the autumn-winter period, as they have greater cross-country ability.