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Named model · Santana · base vehicle shown 2002, built 2004-2011

Special Operations Aníbal

A stripped, open cab-top Santana Aníbal in Spanish Army green, presented as a special-operations patrol vehicle. The open cab-top Aníbal is a genuine Spanish Army body style, but no dedicated special-operations version of the Aníbal is documented — Spain's Mando de Operaciones Especiales used other light vehicles — so this configuration is recorded as an original Difflocked build on a real base vehicle.

Military · Spain
Special Operations Aníbal — front three-quarter render

Factory colours

Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.

History

The Santana Aníbal was the last vehicle designed by Santana Motor of Linares, the company that had built Land Rovers under Spanish licence since 1958. Developed from 1997, shown at the Madrid motor show on 23 May 2002 and built until the factory closed in February 2011, it married the old Series-derived architecture to the Iveco 8140.43P: a 2,798 cc turbocharged, intercooled common-rail four of 92 kW (125 CV) and 275 Nm. Gross weight was 3,050 kg with a tonne of payload, and the Spanish Army took around 1,700 of them, with further sales to France and the Czech Republic. Exported vehicles wore the name PS-10.

Spanish Army Aníbals come in two principal military bodies: a four-crew hard-topped station wagon and a two-door cab version, the latter either with a canvas tilt over the rear body or fully open with a roll bar and inward-facing bench seats. That open 'cab top' is a real and reasonably common configuration — the vehicle photographed here on parade belongs to Regimiento de Artillería Antiaérea 71, and soft-top Aníbals also work with the Brigada Paracaidista, which recovers them from drop zones after airborne cargo drops. Aníbals have deployed on NATO's enhanced Forward Presence in Latvia from 2017 and on exercises including Trident Juncture.

What is not documented is an Aníbal built or issued specifically for special operations. Spain's Mando de Operaciones Especiales has used its own light and medium special-operations vehicles — the VLOE and VMOE families, the URO VAMTAC ST5, the Nissan Patrol-based Lathar and, from 2020, twenty-four Toyota Hilux-based Neton reconnaissance vehicles — rather than the Aníbal, which across the army serves as a liaison and general utility vehicle. No source consulted for this record describes a special-operations Aníbal variant, and the reference image supplied with the Difflocked model is a stock photograph whose caption simply calls it an army special-operations SUV. The vehicle is therefore honestly recorded as an original Difflocked configuration: a plausible weapons-carrier build on the genuine open cab-top Aníbal, not a documented service type.

Imagery

Open cab-top Santana Aníbal of the Spanish Army with the hood struck, roll bar and rear bench seats — an air defence artillery regiment vehicle (RAAA 71), not a special-operations one; it shows the body style the Difflocked model is built on
Open cab-top Santana Aníbal of the Spanish Army with the hood struck, roll bar and rear bench seats — an air defence artillery regiment vehicle (RAAA 71), not a special-operations one; it shows the body style the Difflocked model is built on Outisnn · CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) ↗
Soldiers of the Spanish Brigada Paracaidista recover a soft-top Aníbal (ET 113125) beside its parachutes after an airborne cargo drop, Operation Skyfall - España, May 2015. Airborne rather than special-operations use
Soldiers of the Spanish Brigada Paracaidista recover a soft-top Aníbal (ET 113125) beside its parachutes after an airborne cargo drop, Operation Skyfall - España, May 2015. Airborne rather than special-operations use Staff Sgt. Justin Morelli, US Army · Public domain (work of the US federal government) ↗

Registry record

Manufacturer
Santana Motor S.A., Linares (Jaén), Spain
Manufactured
base vehicle shown 2002, built 2004-2011
Modifier / coachbuilder
Difflocked original configuration; no documented special-operations conversion
Engine type
Iveco 8140.43P 2,798 cc turbocharged intercooled common-rail diesel inline-four, 92 kW (125 CV), 275 Nm
Production run
~1,700 Aníbals of all types delivered to the Spanish Army; no special-operations variant recorded
Country of origin
Spain
Status
base type in Spanish Army service and being withdrawn under the VMTT programme; the special-operations configuration is a game original

Catalogue data

Record kind
Named model
Model line
Santana
Wheels
4

Base catalogue fields are exported from the Difflocked game. In-game physics values are arcade tuning, not certified historical measurements, and are deliberately not shown as specifications here.

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This vehicle is playable in the Difflocked racing game.

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Registry record updated 2026-09-10T02:08:52.417Z · status: draft