Название: Surviving the Ride: A Pictorial History of South African-Manufactured Armoured Vehicles
Автор(ы): Helmoed-Romer Heitman, Steve Camp
Издательство: 30 Degrees South Publishers
Год: 2014
ISBN-13: 978-1928211174
Страниц: 242
Язык: English
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 182 MB
Mine-protected and mine-resistant, ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles are today standard in the US, most major western armed forces and many other armies as a result of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The South African Army was already routinely using mine-protected armored personnel carriers and patrol vehicles forty years ago even if they looked primitive and ungainly. A few years later, the South African Army had reached the stage where it could deploy entire combat groups into battle zones equipped with only mine-protected vehicles, including their ambulances and supply trucks. By then the mine-protected vehicles had also become effective for use in combat, rather than just protected transport, the Casspir being the chief example.