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A raid force that arrives in Land Rovers has to be able to leave in them with its wounded, and the Rangers built that into the RSOV fleet from the start. Each battalion holds two MEDSOVs — medical special operations vehicles — alongside the twelve gun trucks of its Alpha Company. They are RSOVs with the rear weapons mount taken out to make room for litters: up to six stretcher positions in the back, and no armament, the medics relying on the escorting gun trucks.
Mechanically the MEDSOV is the standard vehicle: the Defender 110 built by Land Rover Special Vehicles for the 1992 order, with the four-cylinder turbodiesel and manual gearbox that replaced the prototypes' V8, sized to fit an MH-47 or CH-53 with the rest of the platoon's vehicles. The spare tyres are carried at the front, where a gun truck would keep its fuel racks. The type remains in service with the regiment.
