Anyone have any idea what this vehicle might be? (one suggestion is a Marauder). More importantly where it is from? It is being used to observe demonstrators in Malawi.
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(13 posts)- Started 12 years ago by SRD
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Looks like a marauder to me http://www.malprensa.com/archives/marauder-truck-hala-atras-pa-mi-pasa/
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yeah, that's what we're thinking. definitely a got a familial resemblence to the old caspirs. thanks!
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Maybe I should get one. Be handy for the school run eh?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Ta! have passed your suggestion (which confirmed the hunches of both MRSRD and a geographer from St Andrew's) on to the Malawians who made the original request.
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SRD - Major edit: I've changed my mind. I think it is a Puma M26-15 produced by OTT Vehicles (really!) of South Africa. Brochure at:
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oooh, very convincing. still south african mind you (which is sort of the key thing they want to know).
Thanks! you guys continue to be an impressive source of recondite knowledge.
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Ironically, I had to look up what recondite meant.
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I don't think it's a Casspir - the bonnet is too long and the Casspir has a sloped top and a two leaf rear door. It looks slightly less chunky than a Marauder also, the side window arangement also doesn't fit.
I think it's something slightly older and more based on truck components rather than military - more paramilitary than the above 2 suggestions (although they all look similar, as the ugliness is dictated by functionality) which are aimed at the battlefield rather than city streets.
To me it looks like another South African beast - the OTT M26 Puma. Apparently this is a "protected" rather than "resistant" vehicle and more aimed at paramilitary, police and other commercial users like cash in transit companies.
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hmmm...just struck me that they looked 'south african' as in evolved from casspirs but you could be right. I am not an expert, and the one expert I rely on for these sorts of things is not accessible at present.
would be fascinating to know how they think about design for 'city' versus 'battlefield' and more generally what feeds into their designs these days....
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Do I recognise that from District 9?
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SRD - an interesting question, what does the henchman about town like to be seen in.
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I would go with morningsider. On closer inspection the front end and body are slightly different to the marauder and the Puma M26-15 has different wheels / wheel nut configuration.
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