Czech Military Police Armoured Defender 110 Mk.1

History

The Czech Ministry of Defence's first discreetly armoured Defenders were procured for Military Police use. Bob Morrison photographed one at the IDET 2005 defence exhibition in Brno: externally it looked very much like the standard MP Defender 110 hard top, with four blue beacons on the roof, STOP lights front and rear and blue occulting lights behind the brush guard, but close inspection showed an angular rather than barrelled strip where the front doors narrowed beneath the windows and fixed side door glass with black edging — the clues to the armour underneath. A second batch, the Mk.2 with a removable rear roof section and a pulpit mount for a PKB machine gun, went to Afghanistan with the Czech contingent in 2008. Some sources give the converter as SVOS of Přelouč, builders of the PERUN MPMV that later replaced the D110 Kajman, while a dealer's details on the Afghanistan vehicle's plate suggest AMT Motor supplied that batch; numbers are not stated.

The registry's model is the Defender 110 hard top in olive with the beacons, brush-guard lamps, STOP lights, door-glass edging, lettering, crest, plate and white wheels from the IDET photograph; the queue's supplied image showed the Mk.2, so the article's IDET 2005 picture of the Mk.1 was used instead.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

SVOS spol. s r.o. ↗

Land Rover (Defender 110 hard top); discreet armour by an unconfirmed converter (SVOS of Přelouč per some sources)

Manufactured

In service by IDET 2005 (procurement date not stated)

Modifier / coachbuilder

SVOS spol. s r.o. ↗

unconfirmed / AMT Motor (supplier)

Engine type

Land Rover 2.5 L Td5 turbo-diesel (Defender 110 of the period; not stated in the source)

Production run

Unknown — a small first batch for the Military Police, followed by the Mk.2 batch

Country of origin

Czech Republic

Operated in

Czech Republic

Status

unknown

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

110″

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• MLR 37 — Armoured Czech Army Defenders (Bob Morrison; Czech Military Police armoured Defender 110 at IDET 2005 and the Mk.2 in Afghanistan 2008, photographs by Bob Morrison and Yves Debay) ↗ — Joint Forces News (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://www.joint-forces.com/utility-4x4/32015-mlr-37-armoured-czech-army-defenders https://www.joint-forces.com/utility-4x4/32015-mlr-37-armoured-czech-army-defenders ↗

Development reference notes

• [Christophe Jacquemont's photographic walkaround](https://warwheels.net/Shorland3apcPortJacquemont.html): detailed door hinges, armoured windscreen shutters, headlamp guards, turret hatch, mantlet and spotlight. The model retains military green rather than copying the photographed Portuguese police livery. · MILITARY-MODEL-REFERENCES.md

  - [Christophe Jacquemont's photographic walkaround](https://warwheels.net/Shorland3apcPortJacquemont.html): detailed door hinges, armoured windscreen shutters, headlamp guards, turret hatch, mantlet and spotlight. The model retains military green rather than copying the photographed Portuguese police livery.