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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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Includes index. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Tanks (Military science) -- South Africa -- Pictorial works.
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Tanks (Military science) |
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South Africa. |
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Pictorial works.
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Mines (Military explosives)
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Mines (Military explosives) |
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Armored vehicles, Military -- South Africa -- Pictorial works.
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Armored vehicles, Military. |
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Vehicles, Military -- South Africa -- History.
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Vehicles, Military. |
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Vehicles, Military -- South Africa -- Pictorial works.
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Defense industries -- South Africa.
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Defense industries. |
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South Africa -- History, Military.
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History, Military. |
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History. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Military history.
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Illustrated works.
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Illustrated works.
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Heitman, H.-R. (Helmoed-R.)
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Print version: Camp, Steve. Surviving the Ride : A Pictorial History of South African-Manufactured Armoured Vehicles. Havertown : 30 Degrees South Publishers, ©2014 9781928211174 |
| ISBN |
9781928211532 (electronic book) |
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1928211534 (electronic book) |
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9781928211174 |
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