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Surviving the Ride: A Pictorial History of South African-Manufactured Armoured Vehicles
by Steve Camp & Helmoed Römer Heitman R495
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 armoured 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. More to the point, they saved countless soldiers and policemen from death or serious injury, and the basic concepts now live on in the various MRAP types in service today.
The valuable lessons learned by the South Africans with their early designs of these combat-proven vehicles has led the country to become one of the global leaders in the design of MRAPs which are locally manufactured and exported around the world. Surviving the Ride is a fascinating pictorial account featuring more than 200 of these unique South African-developed vehicles and variants, spanning a forty-year period, with over 450 photographs, many of which are previously unpublished
Outstanding book
It is about time that a book with this content became available. This book shows clearly the development and history of the Mine Protected vehicles which are currently being used around the world but would not have existed without the ingenuity and skill of South Africans.
I had the privilege of contributing in a small way to the book, proof reading it and contributing a few photos, and I have been waiting in anticipation for its release. Now that it's finally been announced, I can proudly add a copy to my shelf.
Buy it! It's worth it! - John Dovey
· Cover Type: Paperback
· Number of Pages: 252 (450 Colour Illustrations/photos)
· Size: A4
· Binding: Perfect
· ISBN: 978-1-928211-17-4
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