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The Snatch was the British Army's name for the Courtaulds (later NP Aerospace) CAV 100 composite-armoured body on the Defender 110 chassis, bought in 1992 for Northern Ireland and progressively uprated through Snatch 1.5, Snatch 2 and the Vixen and Vixen Plus standards for Iraq and Afghanistan, which added a stronger chassis, uprated suspension and brakes, and provision for electronic counter-measures and a roof-hatch weapon mount. Joint Forces' July 2021 report on the end of the Wolf notes that the Defence Equipment Sales Authority had signed a framework agreement with the disposals wing of South Africa's ARMSCOR, and that its 24-page brochure of equipment on offer listed the Land Rover TUM and TUL, the Snatch 2 Vixen Plus and the R-WMIK+.
The library photograph used for this model, by Bob Morrison, shows an uprated Snatch Vixen Plus at an MoD Urgent Operational Requirement day on Salisbury Plain: desert sand with a spotted camouflage net over the roof and rear body, the roof hatch open with two crew and a GPMG, ECM boxes on the wings and an ECM dome on the roof, a snorkel up the right-hand A-pillar, black flared arches, sand-painted steel wheels, a side locker on the rear body and the registration 25 KK 56. The registry's model is built on its Snatch with those additions; the crew are not modelled. Production numbers for the Vixen Plus standard are not given in the source.
