Let's Talk about Technicals

To my knowledge there isnt a, pardon the pun, technical manual on technicals. What do you want to know? General methodology is take an existing vehicle, add armor in select areas and mou t some sort of crew served weapon. Be it a 50 cal or recoil-less rifle or something similar.

>>33668882
Honestly? I'd like to know everything.
Pretty unrealistically, I think it would be cool to make my own.

>>33668937
>take literally any vehicle
>put a big gun in it
done

There's fancier technicals out there, armored and with rocket launchers, but usually any vvehicle-mounted gun will do, like an M2.

>>33669138
What are the usual methods of protecting the engine and driver from small arms fire and/or rifle fire?

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This is all I have to contribute

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>>33668827

>>33669195
> i didnt realize acme was also arming isis

>>33669158
They don't.

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Mad Max: Sirte Road when?

>>33669195
Please tell me there's video of what happened when it launched.

>>33669158
When they do it's just what they can find laying around.

>>33669158
the point of the thing is to get heavy weapons to target fast rather than crew safety
that said, you just weld extra metal to the hood and doors to up armor it

Wouldn't adding any significant amount of armor ruin the suspension? Especially after you add in the extra people you'd be carrying to crew the weapon and such.

>>33669195
https://youtu.be/f9gzMwhmNY8

>>33669240
That's pretty cool actually.

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>>33669158

>>33669312
the smart ones buff their suspension first. the really smart ones add some outriggers to handle some of the recoil of those 23mm when shooting over the side.

>>33669251
Not sure if it's this same techie but they were using a modified rocket "mortar" thing that made massive explosions. There's a drone cam of the thing landing in a city and the shockwave is impressive.

>>33669312
Doesn't matter. It's got the life expectancy of a house fly in combat. If it stays around long enough to break you just get another truck, and start over.

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>>33668827
Forget trucks, muthafuckin Tachankas are where it's at.
https://youtu.be/jGofoatz-20

I'm thinking about buying an old truck and up armoring it.
Gonna weld expanded metal mesh over the windows for a start.

>>33669753
Sounds fun

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this is my fetish

I am getting ridiculously hype for the road war. I work in the office of a construction company while studying to be a solicitor, but I know how to weld and service cars because my dad taught me.

>implying I'm not just gonna start lifting all the scrap metal to fashion armour for the hilux

Pic related is my spirit animal

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>>33671103

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>>33671125
>>33671103
>there are literally people itt who aren't sexually aroused by this image

>>33668827
Would a Jeep Wrangler make a good american technical? I think so

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>Technical thred

>>33669222
Thats... thats not even armor... Thats fucking particle board. They armored it with particle board. are you kidding me?

>>33672242
I think it's just extra material, not armor necessarily. Not sure how this particular design works but the idea is to detonate an RPG early so the blast doesn't damage the armor so much or get a penetration rather.

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>>33669558
get out of here communist, we put our maxims on CARS.

>>33671346
I'm actually thinking of doing exactly that at the next nuggetfest.
Probably gonna put a potato cannon on it for shiggles unless someone brings a stamped MG

Posting something that hasn't been posted here before. Presenting the Romanian tractor-tank thing.


>>33669222
That shit makes WWI tanks look state of the art in 2017.
>>33669347
Not Orky enuff. Needs more skulls and shit.

>>33672310
>maxims
please leave

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>>33672328
Fuck forgot image.

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Dumping a few more vintage technicals

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This one looks like something you'd see in Syria today.

>>33669158
none. From the Syria vids I've seen they're usually sporting either a 14.5x114mm, a TOW, or some random rocket tubes, so they're all fairly long range weapons and the technical is outside typical 'allah will guide my bullet' range. The 14.5mm might be closer if they're using them as direct fire, although half the time it looks like they're just lobbing bullets in the general direction of the enemy

>>33669180
>They are legitimately proud of this

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I'm thinking those Chevy Van/Truck things might make a decent technical. Good suspension, easy to beef up, large bed, good space for spare ammo or small crew.

>>33669240
>Check it out Hassan, it's basically a Chenowth!

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>>33669180

>Disguised as a house

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>>33669222
>nobody's going to point out that it's a fucking sandcrawler

>>33669240
Hey! Gorod Freeman!

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>>33672427
It would be a light or medium duty truck. There's a colloquial name for these that I can't remember, anybody know?

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>>33672427
>>33672583
I was thinking about the idea of using a crane truck as self-propelled artillery. Most of them already have all the hydraulic mechanisms in place to fit a rotating and elevating turret, you'd just have to fit somewhere for ammo storage and place mad-max tier armour plating on it. With the legs as well it'd be stable as fuck

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>>33672677
This would probably be a better model to go off of since these things are built like a brick shithouse, but the trade off is that they're slow as buggery.

>>33669240
Reminds me of the rail car from Metro Last Light but a VDV Buggy version instead.

>>33672683
that'd be freaking awesome

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>>33672708
The fact that the engine is behind the cab / not directly at the front is advantageous, because you'd be less likely to get it fucked up by small arms fire.

Granted, if you're using these things as nigga-rigged artillery you're ideally not going to have them in a place where small-arms fire would be an issue, but since they're built out of solid af steal, you could just as easily mount an autocanon or 2 onto them and use them as AFVs, then you'd have to worry about armoured skirts and shit like that to protect the wheels, but they probably wouldn't get raped as quickly by an RPG compared to just a normal lorry.

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>>33672683
>>33672737
Imagine a technical-style imitation of a land battleship

>>33672677
I used to work in construction, and I'd always think about ways to do this. It just seems so obvious.

>>33672844
how precisely can they be controlled? If it's sloppy then the boom control could be the "coarse adjust" and the gun could have a "fine adjust" installed because the boom control and the gun.

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NZ was doing this before it was cool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Semple_tank

>>33672862
This was refinery construction. YMMV, but I remember them being able to move loads hella slow. We'd often be doing a slow walk holding the tag rope next to the suspended equipment.

>>33672894
yes that's corrugated iron tacked to a tractor, it also included a matress for the gunner to lie on

>>33672904
>>33672894
Sometimes semple problems have semple solutions

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>not using one of these as a mobile mortar pit

>>33672944
>ywn drive this thing through the sandbox, an Uzi in your lap and a beer in your hand, singing Sublime songs with your battle buddies as you check the area for turrists

>>33672929
(ﾟヮﾟ)

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>>33672818
I imagine the closest thing to a technical landship would be something along the lines of a armored up, Mad Max looking tractor trailer outfitted with firing slits and some mounted MGs. I could see the cab being kitted up too, that way it doesn't depend on the trailer for firepower.

>>33673033
just begging to be jackknifed or rolled desu

>>33669205
>isis
>didn't see the Iraqi Hezbollah emblems on the rocket itself
check your eyes nigger

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>>33669240

Go look up the game Convoy on Steam.

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>>33669222
CAN'T WAKE UP

>>33673132
not him, but true.
I think it would work tho if it pretty much only went on long straightaways with a few other more mobile vehicles for support.

Now that i think about it Mad Max actually got a lot of things right when it comes to properly implementing a land ship in a post apocalypse world

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So could I legally mount one of these in the back of my pickup?

>>33673250
What about a LeTourneau style overland train, but uparmoured and weaponed. Would be pretty rad desu although spare parts etc would be an issue.

>>33672899
that sounds precise enough to me, slap a cannon on this biatch and let's go

>>33672482
This

>>33672242
Thats not particle board, just badly cutted metal sheet. You can see some weld

>>33673417
>>33673426
It spooks the fuck out of me as a guy who works in the city that all it would take is like two mortar crews with maybe a couple guys running perimeter to slow down cops to absolutly shut down entire blocks and tank the economy at 9/11 levels for less than it would to buy a car.

Look at the shells in the bottom pic, that could be turned out in any clapped out lathe.

>>33672356
Clarkson, Hammond, and May pls go and stay go.

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Not a technical but whatever.

>notaVBED.ied

>>33671434
>not Need for Nasheed: Damascus Drift
>not Ride Eternal, Shiny and Takbir

>>33672944
>>33672963

Complete shit if used in mud.

>>33673858
>black paint to hide the armor

Clever girl

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yes, let's

>>33671165
sooooooooooooooo much mad max vibe

>>33672390
Serbia

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>>33669180

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>>33669315

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>>33668827
WAKE ME UP

>>33669558
There is a webm of the Ukranian war, in which they use a ZU-23 like a tachanka. It starts by firing off a few rounds, and then the gunners assistent of the towing truck snaps up the outriggers, lowers the wheels and they all drive out of the position, gunner still in the ZU-23.

>>33669347
[overheats internally]

>>33671346
I think there should be a 'Technical' technical trials, in which all kinds of currently available pickup trucks are evaluated for their ability to mount heavy weapons, namely .30 cal machine guns, .50 cal+ heavy machine guns, TOW launchers, recoiless guns.

Evaluation criterion are, mechanical fit of weapon tripods in the truck bed with minimal modification, the trucks ability to traverse terrain with the weapon, the ability to carry as many equipped troops as possible, the ability to strap on aplique armor (optional).

The fastest way of converting a particular model of truck would be to make purpose built truck beds with the gun mounts already built in, and swap out the original truck bed for our new and improved Technical bed. Alternatively, weld in spacer blocks so that there is no wiggle room for the tripod to move around in the truck bed.

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>>33669347
Needs more Daka

>>33672962
Imagine that thing getting hit by an RPG and cooking off, the Middle East is actually just one huge Michael Bay movie

>>33669158
Usually nothing at all.

Otherwise scraps of steel found lying around.

If you'd like to build your own, don't bother armoring, the amount of mild steel needed to stop even basic things would effect your performance.

>>33674342
Good pickups make for good technicals, they're made for carrying heavy loads around in the first place. Every criterion you've chosen is either not important at all or is basically ranked the same.

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EYES ON, EYES ON!

>>33674342

I would pay good money to see a TV show do this.

>tfw based Mack isn't around to film it.

>>33674440

Sure, but you can contrast them on other criteria that do vary: cost, availability, durability under battle conditions, unobtrusiveness after modifications, all-terrain performance. You'd look at a pickup, a van, a step van, a crane, a Hummer, a dump truck, etc. Each has their advantages, especially if we're not just talking about raids and cavalry actions in the desert.

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>>33674344
Never enough dakka

>>33672963
Sublime is disgusting
Now play some Cash or Johnny Horton, and we're in business.

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>>33668937
Tfw this technical is street legal in America.

>>33672818
>gigant mine excavator weaponized
YES

I'm a bit confused by the rationale behind a lot of these middle eastern ones covered in boilerplate.

Seems doubtful they're hardened, so 1/4-1/2" of random steel plate is questionable against, say, 7.62x39, and definitely not going to stop anything full-power, let alone .50bmg or 12.7x109.

Seems a bit retarded to just clad the whole thing in random metal. I guess it makes you feel better...until someone shoots at you and you get spalled.

I figured the best would be a few spaced plates around important bits, otherwise just save the weight and don't bother.

So many autistic larping faggot itt

>>33677104
Honestly, a good chunk of the purpose of the more outrageous looking technicals is simply intimidation/social media tactics. While they offer little practical benefits, it makes for some great PR if you're an indecisive potential combatant who thinks these things are super cool.

>>33677192

Fun and unhinged projects can be good for morale.

>>33677104
even garbage armor is useful against grenades and shrapnel from mortars. Also, it provides concealment against direct fire.

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>>33669180
It's like a game of Civ when a nation takes forever researching the wheel or something.

>>33669180
isis uses a fucking sandcrawler

>>33677104
They're making due with what they have for one and these things are dealing with personal firearms in city environments.

There was this Kurd talking about how it works. It didn't matter the thing was slow as shit, made a lot of noise and all... the garrison only had basic guns that couldn't dent it and the person inside was hell-bent on blowing up inside, there was nothing they could do but get out of his way before the position blew up.

>>33672310
What is this from?

>>33674342
shit id watch it...call it americas next top PMC mobile...or...proxy war workshop

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>>33676803

He used one as a fortress, can't remember if it was mobile in the lore

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Shitty movie but the vehicles were cool, especially this thing

>Cow Pusher up front
>Multiple heavy machine gun mounts
>flamethrower
>Harpoon and tow cable
>rear mounted tank turret to coup de grace anything dragged in by the harpoon

Plus it was a "professional" technical, so not as rickety and shitty as the mad max war rig

>>33672583
Cabover

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Sorry for the watermark.

>>33679271

the only problem i had with that movie was the "tombstone" on the back of the mustang, theres no way that car would go anywhere with a hunk of steel that large on it.

>>33679271
>>33679623

Links

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8-x5ORZe70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgL4IvoR7tw>

>i forgot about the rocket launchers
>and those ben-hur blades on the wheels
>and the deployable pursuit denial chains

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>>33679271
>Shitty movie

>>33672482
>UUUUTINI

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>>33677641
>These shots are too accurate for sand people.jpg

>>33678462
Hitler, the Rise of Evil. Details Hitler's early days. That's a scene where the Friedkorps comes and busts some Commie heads.

>>33678462
>>33680556
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oML2CQoetRA

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don't know if this counts.

>>33680802

>Civilian vehicle
>Gun on the back

Yup

>>33680802

imo if the vehicle was made after 1999 its not a true technical.

>>33674805
>Sublime is disgusting
fite me

>>33680991

Well good thing your personal opinion has zero bearing on the actual meaning of the term.

>>33674805

>trying this hard to act like an old man

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>>33669180
NOICE

>>33673033
How would you even open the bonnet?

>>33680991
What a trash opinion

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>>33669222
I have a serious boner for pic related. Anyone has more pictures of it?

What would be some of the more effective things to mount on them? I mean specifics, not just "a heavy machine gun"

>>33668827
I've been wanting to buy a really shitty small car off of Craigslist to fuck around with at my ranch, like say a fiero, and I've been kinda thinking of making it look pseudo mad max-y for shits and giggles and to practice some welding I haven't done since high school. I've got a few stacks of vehicle leaf springs at a freinds house an de I've been wondering if a single layer of those would offer any small arms resistance if I were to say tack them onto a frame outside the car. Not that anyone would ever shoot it

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Narco tanks are pretty cool, powered by cocaine

>>33669158
Don't know, but I can give pointers if you're going to do it yourself.

1. Make sure your frame can handle the extra weight.
2. Suspension is pretty important.
3. Assymetrical weight distribution can make it suck to drive, and could flip you over.
4. Armor the engine/cab against small arms with steel plate. This should (kinda) balance the weight of the gun/mount. It's not really practical to armor it against anything heavier, and I doubt most commercial vehicles could take the weight.
5. Tires/lift kit. There might be a tactical reason.
6. Engine. All that extra weight still needs to move.
7. Learn how to weld. This should probably be #1.
8. Armor the gas tank and radiator. Learn from the killdozer's mistakes.

>>33683517
>M2HB
>DShK
>:^)

>>33683552
My Spanish is rusty but roughly
>the cabin and bed of the vehicle are made from a single piece. There are no doors for the driver(pilot) and passenger(copilot), but there is one in the rear, along with 12 hatches(iguess they mean the firing portable here)"

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>>33683610
Yeah they're basically a heavy duty apc in a lot of ways, just have greasy dudes shooting out of firing ports rather than exposed weapon systems.
From what I've read they're actually fairly hard to take out with anything short of a light anti-tank round

>>33672376
Literally >tankhunter

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>>33683647
This reminds me of those tornado chaser vehicles.

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>>33683664

>>33669180
>Still has wingmirrors but no windows

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>>33669180
>approach corrugated steel-type slum to gather intel or some shit
>oh hey, they've thrown up some new shacks in the last month
>christ they build ugly houses
>the shacks suddenly start moving towards you

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>>33683719

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I drive an Suzuki Jimny flatdeck, and am former nz army. My jimmy has a bash rail behind my window, I could easily mount a mag58 to it, no legal way to procure one, and would have trouble finding links.

Thoughts on this?

>>33683492
MOAR

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>>33679592
What did that turret come off of?

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>>33674318
Whenever you see something armored like that it's safe to assume it was made for a one way trip.

>>33683973
A tank chassis I presume

>>33674045
Were they the blokes who did that nighttime raid on the German airfield? That's vague as shit, I know, but I remember seeing some half-arsed doco on it years ago.

>>33684013
Mohaa had a level where you raided a German airfield in a jeep during night, same reference?

>>33684068
Maybe inspired by it. I am pretty sure this was the one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Caravan

Google image searching for Operation Caravan doesn't give the original picture as a response, so it's probably just some other dudes.

>>33684013
Yeah

>>33683973
Once a tank gets knocked out, runs out of fuel, a track gets destroyed, or is render inoperable in any other way, this is what ISIS does to them.
They do not have any facilities to service tanks so repairs are out of the question.
The hull gets taken apart to create those killdozers while the turret assembly gets lifted off and placed on a technical to continue serving its purpose.

>>33684011
>>33684188
I meant what specific tank.
Looks a bit like an IS-3, but not quite.

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>>33683973
T-55

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>>33684355
Thanks Anon.

>>33669222
Hey fair is fair, they atleast thought of sloping their armor.
A lot better then those armored boxes

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>>33674077
>Serbia

Polish, used in the Warsaw Uprising 1944;

http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/kubus.htm

>>33674876
d-does that count as an open carry? Asking for a friend

>>33685159
Well it's certainly not concealed carry