Supacat armoured vehicles find their roar on battlefield and Whitehall
For more than 40 years, Supacat has been keeping the peace, supporting British and overseas forces who arrive at places or situations and need to find out what is happening or clear up what has gone before.
But now Supacat, with its Jackal all-terrain military vehicles, is finding its roar. Operationally, the Jackals are getting serious upgrades into fully fledged armoured vehicles replete with rocket launchers. In the boardroom, Supacat executives are telling the Ministry of Defence and the Treasury that if Whitehall is serious about supporting Britain's defence SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) then the time has come for action, strategies and plans, and not just words.
Supacat is one of the low-key heroes of the British defence sector, a manufacturer of military vehicles
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