Land Rover Tangi

The Land Rover Tangi is an armoured vehicle based on the Land Rover chassis and used in policing in Northern Ireland, first by the Royal Ulster Constabulary and now by its replacement, the Police Service of Northern Ireland. It was designed and built in house by the RUC's own engineers. It followed a line of armoured police Land Rovers that began in 1957 with a basic protected Series I and continued with the Hotspur, which had an armoured steel second roof, ballistic steel side plates and pistol ports, and the purpose built Simba. Because the Simba was slow to produce and the Hotspurs were wearing out, armour kits from retired Hotspurs were fitted to new Land Rover Defender 110 chassis, and the name comes from the Swahili word for tank.