This is the Ridgeback Armoured vehicle.
The picture was provided by my Nephew Royal Marine Paul Warren who was killed in afghanistan on 21 June 2010 whilst serving with Charlie Company, 40 Commando.
The picture gives a good idea of the size of this beast .
I believe the picture was taken by Paul on 10/10/2008
The UK MoD had ordered over 500 Cougars including Ridgback, Mastiff and Wolfhound variants. Ridgback vehicles were modified by the additional armour systems, specialist Nato-spec weapons, communications systems and electronic countermeasures equipment when they arrived in the UK (the vehicles were ordered in 2008 as an urgent operational requirement (UOR).
