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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 120 of these unique South African-developed vehicles,
spanning a forty-year period, with over 280 photographs, many of
which are previously unpublished.
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