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Hal Turner — The Hal Turner Radio Show March 6, 2023

At least two (2) British “STORMER” surface-to-air-missile launchers have been spotted being trucked inside Ukraine.

The Alvis Stormer is a military armored vehicle manufactured by the British company Alvis Vickers, now BAE Systems Land & Armaments. The Stormer is a development of the CVR(T) family of vehicles (Scorpion, Scimitar, Spartan etc.), essentially a larger, modernized version with an extra road-wheel on each side.

Variants

Like most modern AFVs, Stormer can be produced in several different configurations for different battlefield roles. It is marketed by BAE as being available in several configurations, such as a two-person turret armed with a 25 mm cannon, air defence (with guns or missiles), an engineer vehicle, a recovery vehicle, an ambulance, a mine layer, an 81 mm or 120 mm mortar carrier, a command and control vehicle, a bridge layer, and a logistics vehicle. Optional equipment includes a nuclear-biological-chemical protection system, an amphibious kit, passive night-vision equipment, and an air-conditioning system.

Specific types are:

Stormer HVM

The British Army use Stormer equipped with High Velocity Missile (HVM) – the Starstreak and Martlet (missile) aka Lightweight Multirole Missile for short-range air defense. Under the Army 2020 plan for the British armed forces, Stormer HVM was to equip three regular and two reserve artillery batteries. The reserve batteries have since all been converted to HVM Lightweight Multiple Launcher (LML) to reduce the training burden.[1] There are reports the Stormer HVM is being supplied to Ukraine.[2] Six had arrived by July 24, 2022, according to the Ukrainian army.

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