Reva APC

The REVA Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) is a mine-protected vehicle. It is produced by Integrated Convoy Protection. The vehicle’s V-shaped hull offers protection against land mines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IED)s. The vehicle has space for at least 10 passengers. Ten firing ports are also available. Two light machine guns can be used and cover a 360-degree on roller bearing turret hatches.

The vehicle is often confused with the Mamba and the RG-31.

Production history

Variants

The REVA 4x4 APC is available as a 10-seater vehicle which includes the driver and co-driver. It was designed in October 2004. ICP are the owners of the Blue Print data pack of the REVA 4x4.

Other models available are:

• A command and control vehicle
• An ambulance
• A recovery vehicle
• A VIP carrier

Operators

Current operators

•  Egypt: Used by the Rapid Deployment Forces (Egypt)
•  Equatorial Guinea: 25
•  Iraq: 115
•  Nigeria : 40
•  Saudi Arabia: 25
•  South Sudan: 10
•  Thailand: 87
•  Yemen: 112

Captures

•  Islamic State: 2 destroyed vehicles were left by Iraqi SWAT after the First Battle of Tikrit in July 2014.

Combat history

• Boko Haram insurgency
• Iraq War
• Iraqi insurgency (2011–2013)
• First Battle of Tikrit
• South Sudanese Civil War

See also

Other wheeled APCs and IFVs developed in South Africa

• RG-33
• RG-32
• RG-12
• Mamba
• Puma (South African, new construction by Regis Trading International (Pty) Ltd Archived 2009-01-25 at the Wayback Machine, which is similar to the Mamba
• Ratel IFV
• Casspir
• Buffel

General

• Infantry fighting vehicle
• List of AFVs

References

External links

• Integrated Convoy Protection