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With decades of engineering design success, Supacat has evolved into one of the world’ s leading companies specializing in the design and development of military off-road vehicles. Operating in various harsh environments, Supacat’ s range of wheeled and tracked vehicles is continuously expanding in line with new requirements for highmobility cross-country defense vehicles.
Supacat was co-founded in 1980 by Nick Jones, who continues to play a pivotal role in the company’ s operations four decades on. Driven by Nick’ s passion, the company developed a range of groundbreaking allterrain vehicles, including the innovative All-Terrain Mobility Platform( ATMP) in the early 1980s. In 1982, Supacat created the first iteration of the ATMP, named Jura, after the Isle of Jura where the vehicle was demonstrated to the UK’ s Ministry of Defence( MoD). This resulted in an order for six vehicles and a later order of another iteration in 1987, marking the start of Supacat’ s longstanding partnership with the MoD.
Between 1997 and 2001, the High Mobility Transport Vehicle( HMTV) was developed and officially commissioned by British Special Forces in 2003, with subsequent adoption by various global defense forces. In 2007, an Urgent Operational Requirement( UOR) was signed for vehicles to support the British Army in Afghanistan, leading to the introduction of the HMTV into the Green Army, known as the Jackal and Coyote by British soldiers. Since then, there have been several iterations of the HMTV platform with more than 1000 vehicles in service globally today.
▲ David Clayton and Nick Jones, 1981
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