Land Rover recently unveiled the Range Rover Sentinel, a made-to-order armored SUV based on the Range Rover Autobiography. The vehicle was developed and is manufactured by Land Rover’s Special Vehicle Operations department, and it shows through its various capabilities.
The Sentinel features a 360-degree, 6-piece armored passenger safety cell made of high-strength steel and multi-laminated bulletproof glass, which, according to the manufacturer, allows the Sentinel to withstand 7.62mm high velocity, armor-piercing incendiary bullets, lateral blasts from up to 15kg of TNT, and two DM51 hand grenades from the roof and underfloor. The Sentinel also has an anti-tamper exhaust, self-sealing fuel tank, and discreet heavy duty run flat tires. As expected of a Land Rover, it’s also designed to comfortably handle off-road terrain.
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Sticker price?
€400,000 (US$446,000)
Is that real?
That’s interesting given that the JLTV is expected to have a similar unit cost even if R&D is rolled in. Obviously if this Land Rover is mass produced it’d drive costs down but it’d clearly be under-capable compared to the scaled down M-ATV. Makes JLTV look like a good deal.
JLTV to me looks more and more like a good deal and a sorely needed procurement victory for both Army and DOD at large.
JLTV is not a good deal. It’s buying things we’ve already purchased all over again. Plus, we’ll have to buy actual utility vehicles at some point because the JLTV is not suited to that task.
SSD,
SOunds like a blog post topic! You know how your readers like your analysis…
Mick.
Agreed. I enjoy his editorials.
I worked on a JLTV team before the down select. I feel it’s a way to give money to armored vehicle vendors to keep them going.
What DoD does need to do is a modernized CUCV program. I’m thinking Toyotas.
Now I’m on board with a new CUCV since a TRD Tacoma can almost literally do everything that humvees are tasked with now and then some, but what about patrol and scouting? I see CUCV or LSSV and JLTV as a good low/high mix. I always thought the HMMWV was too much truck to replace the M151 and not enough tactical vehicle for the combat it got pressed into.
If you think it’s worthwhile and there’s enough for its own post, I’m doubly interested now of your breakdown on the whole program.
Already purchased, as in MRAP? L-ATV should’ve been the OshKosh MRAP in the first place in my opinion. That doesn’t make it worth buying twice but the M-ATV is really overkill in many areas, and underwhelming in others. The other MRAPs and their internal cargo capacity make much more sense being the size that they are but they don’t scale down as well and so don’t drive as well in all the places Army wants to drive.
I don’t think and really hope not that JLTV will get used as much as a utility vehicle. After every currently planned purchase JLTV replaces its humvee counterpart there will still be well over 100,000 humvees for utility purposes. JLTV is only intended to replace the the armored variants being used for patrol, scout and recon which it’s better suited than the M1151 or other uparmored variant.
MRAP and then M-ATV. Bought armored cars twice. These don’t replace HMMWVs by a long shot.
If you have to ask… 😉
Better buy them in pairs, with their reliability….
Will this be available outside of all major based at 29.9%APR?
E-1 and up? You’re approved!
Ramen noodle diet here I come!!
These are some of the biggest pigs out there. No one in their right mind is gonna spend upwards of 150k for a vehicle with a posh interior and then go off-roading.
I have worked on these Rovers for years and they all fall apart. Knobs fall off, interior materials erode and exterior pieces/cladding discolors.
Status symbol and based on that, they sell a good number of them.
Now the Defender….that’s a pretty cool and tough ride!
Good thing it’s got an anti-tamper exhaust system, I’m tired of the old banana-in the-tail-pipe trick. I get enough of that from the Chief.
Or the popcorn kernels!
That only happens when Agent 13 fails to foil Siegfried and Starker.
I’m guessing PatMac will be all over this?
Eighty percent of all Land Rovers are still on the road. The other twenty percent made it home.
LOL
Now that’s damn funny
I liked the part of the video showing its off road ability. It that the Rubicon, no just a dirt road to a farm house.