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Armor/AFV: Modern - USA
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Hisham
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Al Qahirah, Egypt / لعربية
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 07:52 AM UTC
Any ideas?

Genetk44
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Quebec, Canada
Joined: March 17, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 07:59 AM UTC
It looks like a South African made Nyala recce vehicle to me...heres a link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RG-31

cheers
Gene
junglejim
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Alberta, Canada
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 08:25 AM UTC
Canada just got some for use in Afghanistan, been on the news recently. More info:
http://www.sfu.ca/casr/bg-patrol-rg31.htm
http://www.answers.com/topic/rg-31
http://www.canada.com/national/globalnational/story.html?id=45c1631a-4d5f-49db-8bfd-e5963d0a44ec

Cheers,
Jim
Crackshot53
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Nevada, United States
Joined: March 27, 2005
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 08:28 AM UTC
Looks like a Range Rover on Steroids. :-) :-) :-)


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Buffalo
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Luzon, Philippines
Joined: December 05, 2003
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Posted: Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 09:36 AM UTC
It's BAE Land system RG-31 MPV (Mine Protected Vehicle). Looks like same vehicle used by the US Marine Corps EOD Units. Marines called it RG-31 Cougar.

This is a blown-up Marine RG-31 last January 6 in Iraq.




Below is a Us Marine 4x4 Cougar HEV (Hardened Engineer Vehicle) EOD truck. Looks like similar to RG-31 but more similar to US Army's Buffalo EOD Vehicle.

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