Armored Vehicle General Purpose
Also known as AVGP
thumb|SALH Cougar at CFB Wainwright
Key facts
- Weapon.primary_armament
- Cougar: 76 mm L23A1 gun (fires HE, HESH, Smoke BE (base ejected), and Canister rounds) Grizzly: 12.7mm heavy machine gun and a 7.62 mm machine-gun (C6) and 66 mm smoke grenade launchers (2 clusters of 4 launchers)Husky: 7.62 mm machine gun (C6) and 66 mm smoke grenade launchers (2 clusters of 4 launchers)
- Weapon.secondary_armament
- Cougar: 7.62 mm machine gun (C5A1) and 66 mm smoke grenade launchers No 12 (2 clusters of 4 launchers)
- Weapon.engine
- 275 hp Detroit Diesel 6V53T two-cycle turbo-charged diesel
- Weapon.suspension
- 6×6
- Weapon.speed
- 100 km/h
- Weapon.name
- AVGP
- Weapon.image
- Cougar Fire Support Vehicle (7527694220).jpg
- Weapon.image_size
- 300
- Weapon.caption
- A surplus Cougar seen in a militaria event in the UK.
- Weapon.origin
- Canada
- Weapon.type
Article
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Canada
- Use in Africa
- Uruguay
- Variants
- Cougar (195)
- Husky (31)
- Operators
- Historical operators
- Current operators
- Others
- On Display
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|SALH Cougar at CFB Wainwright
The AVGP (Armoured Vehicle General Purpose), later known as the LAV I, is a series of three amphibious armoured fighting vehicles ordered by the Canadian military in the 1970s. The vehicles, named Grizzly, Cougar and Husky respectively, were based on the six-wheeled version of the Swiss Mowag Piranha I, and became the first generation Light Armoured Vehicle produced by General Motors Diesel (later General Dynamics Land Systems – Canada).