There was much interest in the armoured car on Mr Obama's visit to the UK in 2009.

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One wounded man managed to escape but the others were pinned down until the armoured car could be sent in.

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Once inside, they can climb into an old police armoured car and watch footage, shot from just such a vehicle, of a township riot.

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Rebels opened fire on an armoured car carrying aid workers and burnt out a second vehicle on a main lakeside road south of Bujumbura, humanitarian staff said on Thursday.

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The court heard that Tull used the drug to alleviate symptoms of claustrophobia and post traumatic stress disorder after his Warrior armoured car was blown up during the first Gulf War in 1991.

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This device, developed at the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate in Quantico, Virginia, is a microwave transmitter the size and shape of a small satellite dish that pivots on top of an armoured car.

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With the new Bonn government committed to a defence review, Vickers and other disappointed candidates wonder if the whole project might be reconsidered, creating an opportunity for an all-British or a Franco-British armoured car.

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Absolutely, let's call a spade a spade, a gun a gun, missile a missile, a cluster bomb a child-killer and a Tactica armoured car a means of brutal civilian repression when it's deployed by the Saudis to support the undemocratic government in Bahrain.

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The main reason why Britain has no plausible armoured-car candidate of its own is that, until recently, the army thought the sort it now plans to buy was no longer needed.

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