The French Army have many 20mm canons so decided to mount them on a Renault TRM 2000 truck (all-wheel drive) to fight small drones. They also added a SANDRA thermal camera inherited from the MISTRAL short-range surface-to-air system.

The next step is to add AI for targeting and put it on a Scania Vampire (a new 4 by 4 AWD truck by Scania adapted for specifications of the French Army).

Targets of these technicals will go from micro-drones at 500 m to helicopters at 1,500 m, as well as ground targets up to 2,000 m away.

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much more info and nice photos of the Canadian version: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/gb/sherman-tulip.php

if you know where the vocales came from you get a cookie.

Video recorded by a passenger in a vehicle with homemade monster-type armor shows a convoy of at least 3 armored monsters belonging to La Mayiza MF of the Sinaloa Cartel, traveling through an unidentified location in the state of Sinaloa.

ww2, French Maquis resistance blew up nazi trains, when then had to be protected by armoured trains.

less then a decade later, French trains are being blown up by the Vietnamese resistance and for the exact same reason, requiring constant effort to keep the lines safe ish. Apparently the French also called the Viet-minh partisans "maquis".

These trains were organized in convoys, with the Armoured train in the middle position to protect the entire convoy, the other trains (usually 3) had armorued cars inserted.

this meant that even when not if the tracks were blown up damaged etc, the entire train convoys remained a heavily protected fortress and not an easy target for a follow up attack.

Each convoy was also equipped with large quantities of track construction materiel as damage/theft of materiel from the line from the Vietnamese maquis was non stop and easy to do.

In fact, the Viet-minh appropriated around 300 KM worth of track and used it for their own purposes!

Source: https://www.armyrecognition.com/news/army-news/2026/poland-and-tuerkiye-team-up-on-tolga-air-defense-to-strengthen-natos-eastern-flank

70 series Land Cruiser or Hilux seem like the obvious choices, maybe a Unimog or some
Variety of g wagon. Anyone know what spec many of these LC based technicals are ? Are they mostly 1hz engined ?

I think it's Suzuki Vitara 4WD.

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