page_title: Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked)
section_title: Striker
hierarchical_section_title: Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) / Variants / Striker
context_page_description: The Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked) —or CVR—is a family of armoured fighting vehicles s in service with the British Army and others throughout the world. They are small, highly mobile, air-transportable armoured vehicles designed to replace the Alvis Saladin armoured car.
  Designed by Alvis in the 1960s, the CVR family includes Scorpion and Scimitar light reconnaissance tanks, Spartan armoured personnel carriers s, Sultan command and control vehicle, Samaritan armoured ambulance, Striker anti–tank guided missile vehicle and Samson armoured recovery vehicle. All members of the CVR family were designed to share common automotive components and suspension; aluminium armour was selected to keep the weight down. By 1996, more than 3,500 had been built for British Army use and export.
  Scorpion and Striker have now been withdrawn from British Army service. Scimitar and Spartan were replaced by Ajax and briefly the Panther before the latter's sale in 2018.
context_section_description: The FV102 Striker was the Anti-tank guided missile version of the CVR(T), which was armed with the Swingfire missile system. Striker had five missiles ready to fire in a mounting at the rear of the vehicle, with another five stowed inside. Secondary armament consisted of a commander's 7.62 mm GPMG and multi-barrelled smoke grenade dischargers. Striker looked very similar to Spartan in appearance, becoming more easily identifiable only when the missile tubes were raised. In mid 2006, the British Army had 48 Strikers in service, although they were in the process of being phased out as the Swingfire missile was replaced by the Javelin in mid–2005.
caption: Three Strikers in desert colours, the vehicle nearest the camera has its missile launchers raised
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