The record
The Czech Ministry of Defence's first discreetly armoured Defenders were procured for Military Police use. Bob Morrison photographed one at the IDET 2005 defence exhibition in Brno: externally it looked very much like the standard MP Defender 110 hard top, with four blue beacons on the roof, STOP lights front and rear and blue occulting lights behind the brush guard, but close inspection showed an angular rather than barrelled strip where the front doors narrowed beneath the windows and fixed side door glass with black edging — the clues to the armour underneath. A second batch, the Mk.2 with a removable rear roof section and a pulpit mount for a PKB machine gun, went to Afghanistan with the Czech contingent in 2008. Some sources give the converter as SVOS of Přelouč, builders of the PERUN MPMV that later replaced the D110 Kajman, while a dealer's details on the Afghanistan vehicle's plate suggest AMT Motor supplied that batch; numbers are not stated.
The registry's model is the Defender 110 hard top in olive with the beacons, brush-guard lamps, STOP lights, door-glass edging, lettering, crest, plate and white wheels from the IDET photograph; the queue's supplied image showed the Mk.2, so the article's IDET 2005 picture of the Mk.1 was used instead.
Joint-Forces.com's second Czech Army Defenders article identifies the IDET 2005 vehicle as the SVOS prototype: converted by SVOS of Přelouč for the Vojenská policie with STANAG 4569 ballistic protection to the cab and rear body and underside blast protection, and distinguished from later production vehicles by the angular rake under the side windows. It was built ahead of the batch of armoured Defenders that went to Iraq and Afghanistan on peace-enforcement duties. The registry's second queue row for this vehicle (the SVOS prototype) resolves to this model.
