River Rat Posted November 19, 2019 Share This one's for Hairy.This is the military equipment the company I worked for supplied to the US Military for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are over two thousand in theater of which I only know of 2 that have been scrapped when I left the company in 2015 the count was over 7000 hits (explosions) with 3 fatalities. Those of my vintage that served in the SADF will know this vehicle as the Meerkat but we developed the IP considerably since then. Edited November 19, 2019 by River Rat Blackbeard, Andrew Steer and Hairy 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed-Zulu Posted November 19, 2019 Share Before the Meerkat there was the Spinnekop? Did the Meerkat evolve from there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River Rat Posted November 19, 2019 Share Before the Meerkat there was the Spinnekop? Did the Meerkat evolve from there? If I remember correctly the Spinnekop was a modified grader whilst the Meerkat was a bespoke design, but I guess you could argue that it was a derivative of the Spinnekop. There were a lot of "maak n plan" designs in those days. Ed-Zulu and DJR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed-Zulu Posted November 19, 2019 Share If I remember correctly the Spinnekop was a modified grader whilst the Meerkat was a bespoke design, but I guess you could argue that it was a derivative of the Spinnekop. There were a lot of "maak n plan" designs in those days.That is true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geomark Posted November 19, 2019 Share If I remember correctly the Spinnekop was a modified grader whilst the Meerkat was a bespoke design, but I guess you could argue that it was a derivative of the Spinnekop. There were a lot of "maak n plan" designs in those days.And the father of them all was the Pookie? Developed in mid 70's N of the Limpopo and lots of those designs for mineproof vehicles came south. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pookie_(vehicle) River Rat, Wannabe and DJR 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Posted November 19, 2019 Share Shotto RR! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River Rat Posted November 19, 2019 Share And the father of them all was the Pookie? Developed in mid 70's N of the Limpopo and lots of those designs for mineproof vehicles came south. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pookie_(vehicle) pookie_mine_detector_6_of_81.jpgNow that's something I did not know about. Certainly has a resemblance to our product. geomark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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