Depends which Army you’re talking about. Using this can be a bit of a red herring IMHO, I wouldn’t agree in the context of the 1st world that they need to fix them easily without a workshop. Reality is they don’t want them to break in the first place. If they do they’re either abandoned or dragged back to a pretty well resourced workshop. I too have soft spot for LR but as Moggy says the only reason the British use them is political.

As I own one I also have a soft spot (OK Biased opinion!) for G Wagens. Most, including the UK, 1st world Armed forces use them. The oily bits don’t tend to break, sit one next to just about anything else and the sheer size of the drive train components and chassis will convince you, but they did go through an iffy period around 2002 to maybe 2010 due to, yep you guessed it electronics.

I completely agree with the comments about the real risks but of course as it’s a Merc. If anything electronic does fail you’re going to need deep pockets and it will put a bit of a dampener on your day. Up side is no matter where you are you will probably be able to get what you need.

Tom Shepherd did use one extensively and I think he still has it. He did, however, suffer with an intermittent engine management problem that took forever to track down. Just that would wind me in to orbit and put me off going much further than Tesco’s car park.