The Armoured Closed Cab HMT unveiled by Supacat at DVD 2024 has plenty of room for Boxer modules. (Supacat)
Supacat is proposing its High Mobility Transporter (HMT) with some of the same modules as the Boxer armoured vehicle for the UK Land Mobility Programme (LMP). The company is proposing HMT versions, including the Battle Group Organic Anti-Armour (BGOAA) vehicle armed with the Brimstone or complex weapons, 120 mm mortar carriers, counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UASs), ambulances, and recovery vehicles for the LMP medium protected mobility family.
Previewing the Defence Vehicle Demonstration (DVD) 2024 exhibition held in Millbrook, United Kingdom, on 18 and 19 September, Phil Applegarth, director and head of Supacat, told Janes that the HMTs could support Boxers with the same modules, citing as an example the possibility of wounded soldiers being transferred from a Boxer ambulance to an HMT ambulance to be evacuated to rear areas, allowing the Boxer to continue its mission closer to the front line.
He emphasised the modularity and open architecture, combined with the mobility, of the HMT, allowing the integration of numerous weapon or mission systems.
With a British Army requirement for about 1,600 vehicles, the LMP medium protected mobility family will have a gross vehicle weight (GVW) less than 20 tonnes and the light protected mobility family a GVW less than 10 tonnes. The HMT 4×4 vehicle weighs 9.5 tonnes and the 6×6 version 12 tonnes.
LMP medium protected mobility vehicles will be procured in troop-carrying vehicle, command-and-control (C2), equipment support, tactical support, battlefield ambulance, and mission system carrier versions, with the latter to be used to carry ground-based air defence (GBAD); intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR); or chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) mission systems.
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