Surviving the ride : a pictorial history of South African-manufactured mine-protected vehicles / Steve Camp and Helmoed-Römer Heitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camp, Steve, author.

Heitman, H.-R. (Helmoed-R.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mines (Military explosives).

Tanks (Military science)--South Africa--Pictorial works.

Tanks (Military science).

Armored vehicles, Military--South Africa--Pictorial works.

Armored vehicles, Military.

South Africa--History, Military.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pinetown, South Africa : 30° South Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Deidication Page and Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Authors' note; Foreword; Chapter 1: The road to MRAP; Chapter 2: 1940s, South Africa's early armoured vehicle manufacturing success; Chapter 3: 1970s, Pioneering mine-protected vehicles and technology; Chapter 4: 1980s, Mine-protected vehicles save many lives during the height of the Border War; Chapter 5: 1990s, International markets open to South African mine-protected vehicles; Chapter 6: Demand for South African MRAPs in Iraq and Afghanistan

Chapter 7: South African armoured cars and infantry combat vehiclesChapter 8: South African landmine-detection vehicles; Chapter 9: Unusual South African mine-protected vehicles; Chapter 10: Proving the concept; Chapter 11: South African influence on MRAP vehicles internationally; Glossary; Index; Photo credits; About the authors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2015).

ISBN:

9781928211532

1928211534