Technicals: Non-Standard Tactical Vehicles from the Great Toyota War to Modern Special Forces

by Leigh Neville

Over the last 30 years, the "technical" or armed pick-up truck has become arguably the most ubiquitous military land vehicle of modern warfare.

Harking back to the armed Jeeps and Chevrolet trucks of the SAS and Long Range Desert Group in North Africa in World War II, the world's first insurgent technicals were those of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army in Algeria in the late 1970s, followed by the Chadian use of technical in the so-called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147282251X
• ISBN13: 9781472822512
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.3" x 9.5"