Hello
I need info if IMV Bushmaster used in Iraq by British Forces or Australian in Afganistan is equipment with some extra armour only for those conflicts?
( duke antennas or maybe RWS...)
Thank You
Chris

Dear Krys
AFAIK the brits dont have the bushmaster
Only the dutch and the aussies.

For my last pics I need to dig in, but the Bushmaster have 2 Duke antennas mounted on each bottom corners of the front cabin.

Regarding the RWS they have the special one
You should look to the thread called "Scratching the Bushmaster" you will find nice pics from all the guys here.

Cheers
Seb

Australian Bushmaster with RWS :



with Duke antennas :


Some Dutch Bushmasters deployed in Afghanistan had been fitted with an "Interrogator arm" for IED clearance.


Frenchy

actualt seb the brits did buy a limited number of bushmasters for use in iraq
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23695409-31477,00.html

I have already done theses mods. Just waiting on the kit to be released.

Cheers Jason

Hi Chris.
Can't vouch for the Brits but I know the US was looking at them for a time. They went the smart way for their locally produced MRAPs. Although the contract would have been a boost for our economy at the time.
PMVs (they are no longer known as the IMV as everyone uses them now including the RAAF) have been used extensively in Iraq (where we lost one to an IED) and Afghanistan (lost more than I can remember now). The RWS is known as a PWS for Protected Weapons Station and is very similar to the US CROWS. The Dutch fit .50 Cals (QCB? Can't remember) but ours only have the MAG58 at this stage but they were looking at fitting them with MTF 1. I don't know if they succeded. The RAAC Units have been fitting the RAR on this for years but the Infantry insisted that the MAG58 was enough and gave us all kinds of stories like the windscreen and the roof couldn't take the extra weight. The Dutch bless their cotton socks proved them wrong.
Only the Dutch have the add on armour, ours being fitted with spall liners inside. The Duke system that everyone knows about is only used in Afghanistan and only in the past 12 months. It is only used in the MEAO because it is illegal for us to have jammers fitted in Australia at this stage. Makes it hard to train on the equipment when you don't have it.
In Iraq the PMV was only used in the South with OBG-W (don't think they went over with the initial AMTG but someone will correct me).
Hope that helps. I did a tour in Iraq working with the PMV and a tour in Afghanistan working on the PMV so I have a little inside information. But not for much longer.

Cheers, John

Hello
Many thank's for ALL by help.
Chris from Poland