Carriers
The Roland system has been installed on a variety of platforms, amongst them:
- tracked
- AMX 30
- Marder
- wheeled
- ACMAT 6x6
- MAN 6x6, 8x8
Roland 2 was proposed in the early 1980s for installation on the Leopard I tank chassis, probably to meet an expected Dutch army requirement but was never built. In configuration it would have been very similar to the AMX-30R.
American Roland on the M109 chassis was built in prototype form but production systems were rather hastily installed on 6x6 flatbed trucks.
An airliftable shelter named Roland CAROL has also been developed, which is a 7.8t container that can be deployed on the ground to protect fixed assets like airfields or depots or fitted on an ACMAT truck.
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