The record
Two years after the Enhanced WMIK the British Army revised the vehicle again, and this time the change was structural. The E-WMIK had hung armour plates beneath a standard Wolf; the Re-lifed WMIK, R-WMIK, gave the rear of the vehicle an armoured V-hull, the shape that deflects a blast outward rather than catching it, and correspondingly reduced the suspended under-belly armour that the V-hull made redundant.
Carrying it took another suspension upgrade, to a gross weight of 4,100 kg, and the dampers became Bilsteins chosen to cut the body sway that the recoil of the ring-mounted main weapon — a .50 heavy machine gun or 40 mm grenade machine gun — set up in a light vehicle. Later safety revisions removed the commander's seat and the windscreen capability. The powertrain stayed the Wolf's 300 Tdi and R380. A further step, the RWMIK+ at 4.7 tonnes gross, was delivered in 2010–11.
By the R-WMIK the WMIK line had gone from a 1998 reconnaissance vehicle to something close to the limit of what a Defender chassis could carry, which is why the Jackal took over the role. Quantities for the re-life programme are not published in the sources consulted.
