 The experience gained by the Cougar and AVGP program evolved into the highly successful, made in Canada, LAV-25 and LAV III armoured vehicles that have been deployed by armies around the world.The Coyote Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle is a Canadian produced eight-wheeled armoured reconnaissance vehicle based on and upgraded version of the LAV-25, 203 entered Canadian service by 1996.As originally conceived in the early 1990s, the Armoured Combat Vehicle (ACV) was intended to replace the AVGP Cougar for the types of missions that it had been called upon to carry out during Operations Other Than War (OOTW) in Somalia and Bosnia.