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Welcome to OVIK Special Vehicles
DESIGN - PROTOTYPE - TEST - BUILD - SUPPLY - SUPPORT
At OVIK we design, prototype, test, manufacture and supply specialist vehicles to fulfill highly specialised roles across the defence, police, emergency services, security, humanitarian and commercial sectors.
From diesel powered motorcycles to armoured public order vehicles - we take on some of the most challenging and unusual projects in the world of vehicle design and build.
With our highly skilled and experienced team of designers, engineers, armourers, mechanics, fabricators and apprentices we turn customers' requirements into innovative and cost-effective solutions.
OVIK - THE CORRECT SOLUTION - FIRST TIME - ON TIME
Lateral thinking, uncompromising standards and a genuine passion for specialist vehicle design is the pure ethos of OVIK Special Vehicles. We fully understand the relationship that develops between operator and vehicle and how the correct vehicle provides the edge required to make operations a success.
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NEWS....SNATCH Defender Recycling Programme
The PHOENIX is Risen!
SNATCH Landrover Recycle Programme
The UK MOD SNATCH DEFENDER fleet is being disposed of. Many of the unfairly maligned SNATCH vehicles have now reached the end of their useful life; many have endured years operating in the harsh conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Following OVIK's success designing, building and then delivering 60 of its PANGOLIN Armoured Public Order vehicles to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and in the wake of last summer's riots in the UK, we were approached by a number of UK police forces to scope the possibility of re-cycling former British Army (UK MOD) SNATCH Land Rovers into cost effective Public Order Vehicles.
IN SERVICE WITH AVON AND SOMERSET
Working closely with constabularies OVIK evolved the R-OVIK concept vehicle - the first in a line of vehicles known as the PHOENIX - resurrected from what were essentially scrapped former MOD vehicles. OVIK has since established itself as the leading supplier of upgraded/enhanced and re-fitted fomer SNATCH vehicles.
FROM HARD LABOUR to MAKEOVER
Following, in some cases, up to twenty years of hard labour, the average 'end of life' SNATCH is usually in a pretty sorry state. OVIK selects vehicles for upgrade as carefully as possible but, inevitably a full refurbishment and upgrade to PHOENIX standard takes up to 340 man hours to complete. In addition to a full engine and transmission re-life OVIK significantly upgrades all brakes and suspension in line with the VSAG 08 and 13H compliant systems on PANGOLIN. The handling and overall performance of the old V8 DEFENDER is transformed. OVIK adds a full 'public order' body kit including hardening of all doors, wings bonnet etc. The vehicle is painted in fire resistant paint and internal and external fire suppression systems are integrated to dampen the effects from direct petrol bomb attack. Finally OVIK installs a suite of attack protected emergency /police lighting and a siren system before installing the police tactical radio system. Result... a highly cost-effective public order vehicle and arguably one of the most purposeful looking DEFENDERS ever produced.
Find out more about PHOENIX on the Vehicles page of our Website.
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