Technicals
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Technicals

Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces

  1. 48 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Technicals

Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces

About this book

In recent history, the 'technical' or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare.

Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent technicals were those of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in Algeria in the late 1970s, followed by the Chadian use of technical in the so-called Toyota War against Libya. Since then, technicals have seen use in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, as well as being used by Western and Russian Special Forces.

Fully illustrated with commissioned artwork and providing rigorous analysis, this is the first history of how this deceptively simple fighting vehicle has been used and developed in conflicts worldwide.

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Information

Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781472822512
eBook ISBN
9781472822536
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Technical Mounted-Weapons Overview
  5. Beirut
  6. Africa
  7. The Great Toyota War
  8. Somalia
  9. Chechnya And The Balkans
  10. Afghanistan
  11. Iraq
  12. Libya
  13. Syria
  14. Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. Imprint