Technicals, guntrucks, battle wagons

[anglomanii]

technicals, gun-trucks, battle wagons.

"West Africa is currently going through a very intense arms purchasing period. a lot of embargo's have been lifted and western support has increased dramatically.
you will find a great deal of refurbished and modern equipment in the hands of rebel groups. mostly due to those groups being semi legit and holding vast reserves of natural resources. several are also ex military and defected with large parts of regularly forces and equipment.
Indeed, we can see many countries with modern Chinese vehicles and other stuff . Nonetheless, those new vehicles mean new models..Nonetheless, most of the vehicles should be from the 90's because even if they buy new stuff, it's gonna be kind of "anecdotal" (CRD get Xingxing from China, but only few when DRC is using a lot of old Russian vehicles). But this "anecdotal" should be in the faction as well!"

gun-trucks





battle wagons
http://www.nation.co.ke/image/view/-...-/Ethiopia.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7978/78241303az6.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/1900/78241310lq6.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5817/78241314pt0.jpg

From what we saw, they are using smaller trucks to transport troops. http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/3264/15135694ub0.jpg
(on the road) http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/..._1_somalie.jpg


BMP an APC, and BTR variants and rooikat
Here, XinXing Chinese vehicle in DRC army.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3...8368577gu9.jpg




the AML-90. It's a light armored vehicle with canon (between 500-1000 used in all Africa)
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/...1_djibouti.jpg
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/..._1_somalie.jpg
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/...90_1_gabon.jpg


And at least but perhaps the more important:
Jeep and other pick-ups mounted with canon and other guns
http://www.rcamagazine.com/_news/dat...p_rca_FACA.jpg
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/...P4gST/610x.jpg
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/6644/ad5e55f7by8.jpg
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7...ntmilitol9.jpg
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/6...ntialgucb3.jpg
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2535/79522057mg3.jpg


technicals, guntrucks, battle wagons.


this was compiled from PM's from myself and [R-COM]162eRI. as he is on ops atm i am taking the opportunity to start this thread.

[Nosferatu]

That is actually BTR-90.
BTR-90M with Bakcha-U turret:

BTR-90:

It's not really popular on international marketrs at this time.

Correct me if I' wrong, but this is XZFB05 XinXing



Thanks, mate, waiting for other info from you on this subject

[sheggalism]

BMP an APC, and BTR variants and rooikat
Here, XinXing Chinese vehicle in DRC army.
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3...8368577gu9.jpg




the AML-90. It's a light armored vehicle with canon (between 500-1000 used in all Africa)
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/...1_djibouti.jpg
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/..._1_somalie.jpg
http://armyreco.ifrance.com/afrique/...90_1_gabon.jpg

Again, these Chinese armored cars belong to Congo-Brazzaville, not DRC.

If you're looking for an IFV/APC, there're a lot of BTR-family vehicles in most African armies (PR got a BTR-60 model already).
The BMP-1 is used too, but the BMP-2 is way rarer (I've only seen one photo of it, Ugandian, but maybe Angola has some).

The AML-90 has seen some uses, and it'd a decent addition.

The Rooikat is from South Africa by the way. Nigeria has some EE-9 Cascavel.

[anglomanii]

its just a start guys, try and collate as much info as we can, make it like a smorgasbord of items so when the devs choose what they need they can take it from the most appropriate source.
my first post was simply to get the ball rolling, i have no position on this team or have any role in this faction, i simply asked a few questions and thought this thread might help.


as i have been looking at these technicals i have noticed a lot of them seem to be land cruisers and land rovers plus other 4x4 utes...

[Sgt_Doctor]

The AML 90 is in developpement. It's our great Bao, who made it. Render soon.

[Tonnie]

Thats not a land cruiser its a hilux do not insult us real 4x4 drivers with that ****...


on another note i would love to see some real 4x4 action going on in the model department, would be better then the old techy we have atm

[Wilkinson]

Thats not a land cruiser its a hilux do not insult us real 4x4 drivers with that ****...


on another note i would love to see some real 4x4 action going on in the model department, would be better then the old techy we have atm

Tonnie you own some sports car dork. ahaha.
Yeah agreed, anything newer than the techy is a great step. you could possibly use the M35 Logistic Truck? Reskin it and make it look dirtier and add the mounted gun?

[MAINERROR]

Well the technical will be a custom model.

[anglomanii]

Thats not a land cruiser its a hilux do not insult us real 4x4 drivers with that ****...


on another note i would love to see some real 4x4 action going on in the model department, would be better then the old techy we have atm

your heading the right way for a smack young man... and i did not say it was a landcruiser, read my bloody post ya sodamite.

does'nt someone on the big d forum do 4x4 something compititions? he might be able to help?

[Warpig-]

lol I must have missed it on the callander, apparently its give anglo lip day *runs*

[VisOne]

Doesn't someone on the bigd forum do 4x4 something compititions? He might be able to help?

There certainly is something of a 4x4 competitor on BigD although I think you will find what they do a little more tame then you think. If I'm not mistaken they are actually scale model rock crawlers. A little cheaper than the full size ones I believe.

[EOD_Security-2252]

I agree with tonnie that a respectable 4x4 would be a nice addition; however, I doubt African Resistance fighters have Bilstein shocks available to them. Spacers aren't hard to make tho, so that's a possibility. I'm not really familiar with what the average 4x4 (SUV or pickup) is in Africa, but I hear Toyotas are popular (especially the vans).
I doubt the van's a 4x4, but a Toyota Hiace would make for a descent version of the INS's station wagon. I guess a LWB LR Defender would work as well.

[ChiefRyza]

Why don't you get a Ural and chuck a ZPU on the rear tray? It's a completely believable weapon system, I'm sure I could find some refs of it.

[DankE_SPB]

Why don't you get a Ural and chuck a ZPU on the rear tray? It's a completely believable weapon system, I'm sure I could find some refs of it.

like this?


it will be very badass and something what has no counterpart ingame

[Sgt_Doctor]

Humwee AA ?

[VisOne]

Well this force will certainly need a close air support asset other than MANPAD's and its a gun truck such as that is realistic option for the militia. For the more conventional force it would be nice to see something a little more resistant to small arms though.

[Rezza]

This is the best community faction between all i just love this good luck with the progress

[Wilkinson]

Sticking an AA on the back of a truck like the M35 isnt hard. very simple actually. Just re-modeling is the only ***** . Maybe I'll whip out a couple fun concepts with the M35 as a base of what we could do? working off the images provided

[EOD_Security-2252]

Modeling shouldn't really be a problem. I haven't looked at any weapon files in a good long while, but as long as the ZPU is a weapon similar to the stationary ATs and MGs from vanilla, we'll be able to just sit in the rear of the M35, assuming the M35 is wide enough. Or were you making it a flat bed?

[MAINERROR]

I agree with tonnie that a respectable 4x4 would be a nice addition; however, I doubt African Resistance fighters have Bilstein shocks available to them. Spacers aren't hard to make tho, so that's a possibility. I'm not really familiar with what the average 4x4 (SUV or pickup) is in Africa, but I hear Toyotas are popular (especially the vans).
I doubt the van's a 4x4, but a Toyota Hiace would make for a descent version of the INS's station wagon. I guess a LWB LR Defender would work as well.

Take a look at the design plan mate.