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Sea of Sand (released in the US as Desert Patrol) is a 1958 British war film starring Richard Attenborough, John Gregson and Michael Craig. [1] The film, which was directed by Guy Green , is about a patrol of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during the North African Campaign in the Second World War .
The Desert Patrol Vehicle (DPV), formerly called the Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV), is a Chenowth high-speed, lightly armored sandrail-like vehicle first used in combat during the Gulf War in 1991. [2] Due to their dash speed and off-road mobility, the DPVs were used extensively during Operation Desert Storm .
The original patrol unit consisted of two officers and 28 other ranks, equipped with a Canadian Military Pattern (CMP) Ford 15 Imperial hundredweight (cwt) truck and ten Chevrolet 30 cwt trucks. In March 1941 new types of trucks were issued and the patrol units were split into half-patrols of one officer and 15–18 men in five or six vehicles ...
FAV (Fast Attack Vehicle) / DPV (Desert Patrol Vehicle) Kawasaki KLR-250-D8; M35A2 6×6 2.5-Ton Truck "Deuce And A Half" M915 6×4 Army truck medium transportation. M915A1 6×4 Army truck medium transportation. M925A1 6×6 5-Ton Truck; M977 HEMTT (Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck) M548 Tracked Cargo Carrier
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Force Recon used to operate a fleet of Desert Patrol Vehicles (formerly known as Fast Attack Vehicles or FAVs for short), popularized by the Navy SEALs as the "black dune buggy." However, this vehicle lacked cargo capacity and firepower, so Force Recon moved to a militarized Mercedes-Benz G-Class , also known as a G-wagen, 290 GDT diesel 4×4 ...
The Desert Force (Arabic: قوات البادية, English: Al-Badia Force), also known as the Desert Patrol, was a paramilitary force of Transjordan. Its main task was to guard Jordanian borders with neighboring Iraq , Saudi Arabia and Syria as well as to provide protection for oil pipelines of the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC).
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