reminds me of the technicals in Somalia and outside of Kinshasha DROC
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she's a "Brick.......House"
08 FJC, Brick, Auto, Nitto Terra Grapplers (295), ATrac, Locker, Budbuilt skids and sliders, ToyTec 3" lift
84 FJ-60, blue, body lift, BFG AT on oem steelies, Warn Hubs, mostly original
Larry, it looks a lot like the Ferret armoured car used by the British army in Northern Ireland when we were both there. I've got some scanned slides of those I can post when I get back home (in Colorado this week and Utah the next). I wonder if the Soviets copied it (like they did Fiat cars, BMW bikes, and etc.).
Great minds... I mentioned the very thing to him, but the BA-64 was built long before the Ferret. The Russians constructed a small armored car on GAZ-67 chassis (Russian Jeep) and later on the chassis of American Willy's Jeeps that were sent to them in lend-lease.
The Ferret is a far more capable vehicle than the BA-64 but you have to give the Russians credit with making an "armored 4x4 Jeep" that worked as a scout car. They made a lot of them and the only country where they are still in service is Myanmar. Strip a jeep, bolt on a welded metal carapace and you have a BA-64.
The Daimler Dingo was the British answer to the armored scout car in WW2 (contemporary of the BA-64)
Ferret
BRDM-2 (Soviet Army contemporary of the UK's Ferret)
Fox (UK) - an evolved Ferret
It's interesting how vehicles evolve. Same with FJ40 to the FJ Cruiser of today.
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those things are tiny...been in BRDM and MTLB as well as SA-13 and those things are tiny...have to be mongolian midget to have any extra room in them. Not to mention not airconditioned and absorb every bit of heat from son....
still fun to drive....sand or mud even if a little top heavy.
__________________ I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.- Archilochus, 650BC
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she's a "Brick.......House"
08 FJC, Brick, Auto, Nitto Terra Grapplers (295), ATrac, Locker, Budbuilt skids and sliders, ToyTec 3" lift
84 FJ-60, blue, body lift, BFG AT on oem steelies, Warn Hubs, mostly original
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