The most numerous variant of the Military Land Rover fielded on the massive NATO Exercise TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018 (TRJE18) was the hard top WOLF 110 model, writes Bob Morrison.
As we have previously briefly seen, France and Poland also used small numbers of Land Rover Defenders in specialist roles but these were slightly militarised versions of the Core Model five-door Station Wagon rather than the full-on military specification WOLF. Although invariably called the WOLF, its codename during trials in the first half of the 1990s, this specialist chassis long wheelbase model is actually classified as the TRUCK UTILITY MEDIUM (TUM) Higher Specification (HS) by the UK MoD and as the Defender XD (eXtra Duty) by the manufacturer; for more detail see MLR Part 7 in this section.

A convoy of 4 MNB WOLF 110 Land Rovers accompanied by a Norwegian Army G-wagen liaison vehicle [©BM]

Cab roof exit hatch and large raised air intake mark this out as a Winterised and Waterproofed WOLF 110 [©BM]

Rear view of the Winterised & Waterproofed WOLF – these variants were quite rare on the exercise [©BM]
One final point which caught my eye was that almost every British Army Land Rover I snapped during TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018 was towing a well laden trailer behind it – something it had done since leaving the UK by road almost a month before at the start of its journey to eastern mid-Norway. Far from the WOLF having disappeared from service, as some commentators would have us believe, this 20+ year veteran of exercises and operations is still pulling strong as part of Britain’s versatile Adaptable Force.
Next time I will look at the Defender 130 Battle Field Ambulance on TRJE18.
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