The Universal vehicle programme - British army 1950's WI.

So the concept UVP has spread to wheeled vehicles as well as tracked ones?

Perhaps UVP 2 or 3 leads to the development of an IFV as well as an APC.
 
I was thinking that UVP 2: The Search for Replacements could be something based on the Cheiftan hull for the tank and heavy artillery and some kind of IFV because by this time the BMP-1's coming onto the scene. Fuel filled back doors and all.
 
Are there any future plans for this? It would be interesting to see what the 1960's era universal vehicles would look like.
I was thinking that UVP 2: The Search for Replacements could be something based on the Cheiftan hull for the tank and heavy artillery and some kind of IFV because by this time the BMP-1's coming onto the scene. Fuel filled back doors and all.
There was at least 1 version of the Chieftain designed as a SPAAG, the Sabre. It mounted the same 30 mm cannons as the Chieftain, but with more ammunition, and there seems to be enough room to mount Rapier missiles on each side of the turret, creating a machine much like the 9K22 Tunguska, should something like that be desired. It seems the British got it mostly right OTL in the 1960's, with primarily the Chieftain, FV430, CVR(T), and CVR(W) chassis. They just didn't design the variants to take advantage of those chassis, or some of the variants with potential were cancelled. In particular, the FV431 supply carrier was cancelled in favor of the Alvis Stalwart, which used the older Alvis Saladin chassis and thus had no commonality with the new generation of vehicles it was designed to support.
 
Nope, it was a prototype "amphibious armored load carrier" that lost out to the Alvis Stalwart for production.
 
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