Specialist and Logistic Vehicles (SLV) Project Team is a through life project team with responsibility for the procurement and in-service management of specialist and logistic vehicles used by the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Our Armed Forces rely upon us to support their demanding and often dangerous roles, whether at home or deployed in theatre on operations.
Our role as a team of skilled professional staff is to ensure that their vehicles are fit for purpose, serviceable and safe. We manage this responsibility through three main Output Groups; Heavy Logistics Vehicles (HLV), Light Mobility (LM) and Support Vehicles (SV), delivering a portfolio of projects and Urgent Operational Requirements (UORs) to our customers.
SLV is member of the General Support Group, within the Land Equipment Operating Centre. Our focus is to deliver our projects to performance, time and cost parameters, supported by our enabling functions and striving to exceed the expectations of our customers in every aspect of our work.
The SLV PT is made up of a number of project teams together with their supporting function teams.
- Wheeled Tanker (WT)
The Wheeled Tanker provides an enhanced capability for the bulk carriage of water and fuel. They first entered service 2005 with full service date achieved in 2006. The fleet comprises of close support tankers fuel, close support tankers water, and tactical aircraft refuellers. The PT also provides the in-service management of 32,000 litre general support tanker.
- Demountable Rack Off Loading Pick Up System (DROPS)
The vehicles provide a rapidly deployable load carrying capability for the armed forces. The current fleet size is over 2,000 and will be replaced by the non articulated vehicle programme. As an interim The (ELPS) Enhanced Load Palletised System has been introduced.
- Light Utility Vehicles (LUV)
This team provides all legacy Land Rover variants including Defender, WOLF and Battlefield ambulance, Pinzgauer (4*4 and 6*6), RB44 and light weight trailers. A major element of work being undertaken is the Land Rover Defender upgrade project.
Page updated 20 June 2011