I've just seen this video about the British Military retiring their fleet of old Defenders ( ), and at ~1:50 they show that it could possibly be replaced New Defender.
I don't think it will win, but still cool.
Some observations:
- It is an X (red brakes)
- It is a 130
- Custom front + rear steel bumpers
- 2023 Plate
- I read something about it being to do with Lockheed Martin but I can't find that anymore.

 

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Having spent my fair amount of time around military vehicles and their ... progeny... typically vehicles originate in the defense world and become "civilized" aka "civilianized" and softer when they come to the consumer market.

Going the opposite direction would be interesting. GM just did something similar with the ZR2 Bison with the new ISV, but that was a very narrow-use vehicle. Its my understanding that the Defender in the UK military fulfilled the same roles as the HMMWV does here domestically - aka a logistical swiss-army knife with limited tactical configurations. Given what JLR was able to do to the L663 for the Dakar truck, it would be interesting to see if they could make it work for the defense world.