Profile
- Type
- Light 4x4 armored personnel carrier
- Conflict side
- Yemeni government and coalition forces
- Origin
- Yemen
- Service note
- First built in 2012; documented in Yemeni service during the early Yemen Civil War period
Armored Vehicles
Jalal 3 armored vehicle
The Jalal 3 is a Yemeni-built light 4x4 armored personnel carrier developed from a commercial-vehicle base for troop movement, urban security, and protected mobility. Open sources describe machine-gun turret options and small-arms protection, while Yemen Civil War evidence is limited to local reporting and wartime imagery rather than comprehensive official fleet records.
- Conflict side
- Yemeni government and coalition forces
- Built by
- Yemeni defense industry
- Built in
- Yemen
Service History
- In service
- Yemeni service by the 2014-2015 period
- Used by
- Yemeni Republican Army, Yemeni internal security forces, Hadi-aligned Yemeni forces
- Wars
- Yemen Civil War
Production History
- Designer
- Hassan Bin Jalal
- Designed
- First vehicle reported built in 2012
- Built by
- Yemeni defense industry
- Built in
- Yemen
- Unit cost
- Not publicly reported
- Produced
- Reported production from 2012
- Number built
- Not confirmed for Jalal 3; one source reports about 400 vehicles across the wider Jalal series
- Variants
- Light turret configuration, Open-top protected turret configuration
Specifications
- Configuration
- 4x4 wheeled armored personnel carrier based on a commercial SUV-type chassis
- Armament
- Light turret options, including a machine gun up to 12.7 mm caliber
- Protection
- Reported protection against 7.62 mm small-arms fire
- Mobility
- Described as having high off-road capability
- Role
- Troop carrier for land, urban-combat, and internal-security missions
Conflict Usage
- Yemen Civil War
- Side: Yemeni government and coalition forcesRole: Protected troop movement and internal-security mobility
Reported with Yemeni Republican Army and internal-security operators after the conflict began, with later open-source imagery identifying a Hadi-aligned Jalal-3 vehicle in Aden; the evidence is limited and does not support a precise wartime fleet count.
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Yemen defense industry to launch Jalal 3 APC 4x4 armoured personnel carrierPublisher: Army Recognition | Note: Supports Jalal 3 background, Yemeni origin, 4x4 APC type, turret options, first-build date, designer naming context, and the primary image provenance; reuse rights are not stated. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Handbook Of Pre-War Yemeni Fighting VehiclesPublisher: Oryx | Note: Supports Jalal 3 identification in Yemeni fighting-vehicle inventories and linked image references for two configurations. | Accessed: 2026-06-20Yemen produces 400 Jalal series AFVs with anti-RPG capabilitiesPublisher: Asian Defence News | Note: Supports Yemen Civil War context by reporting Jalal 3 deployed in Yemen and fielded by the Republican Army of Yemen and internal security forces after the conflict start date; also supports 7.62 mm protection and commercial SUV-derived chassis claims. | Accessed: 2026-06-20HTKA Yemen thread Jalal-3 imageryPublisher: HTKA Forum | Note: Limited open-source imagery support for Yemen Civil War direct use: the post captions a Jalal-3 used by Hadi-aligned forces in Aden and a Jalal-3 overturned during fighting in Taiz. | Accessed: 2026-06-20