
Ep 025 "Technicals: Toyotas Go To War""
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In the one year anniversary episode (!), we chat about the use of thin-skinned vehicles in the modern age and the asymmetric nature of the fight. The employment of commercially produced vehicles for conduct of raids and ambushes employing a wide array of weapons medium- to heavy-machine guns to mortars to ATGMs and everything in between. Please note that Toyota outside of Japan does not produce these for purpose-built military employment.
And to my fellow CruiserHeads, I salute you.
References:
Leigh Neville Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to modern Special Forces
Alaric Searle & Ed Nash Kurdish Armour Against ISIS: YPG/SDF tanks, technicals and AFVs in the Syrian Civil War, 2014–19
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