Rhodesian "Cougar" early MRAP with 36 shotgun barrels fixed around the vehicle demonstrated in 1978
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0:00 One of several types of mine-resistant vehicles indigenously designed built in Rhodesia since the early 1970s, the Cougar features a characteristic V-shaped hull designed to deflect mine blasts as well as easily replaceable front and rear wheel assemblies that were located away from the hull in order to decrease blast proximity to the crew if one of the wheels triggered a mine. It was also fitted with a soft top in order to prevent overpressure should there be a blast inside the hull.
0:26 To defend against ambushes, the vehicle is fitted with 36 electrically fired shotgun barrels with nine each front, rear, left and right, installed in the manner of a volley gun. Each barrel is reported to be loaded with 250 steel subprojectiles and the effect of the firing can be seen in the latter part of the footage with the left side barrels discharged towards a farm building.
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This was one of many interesting anti-ambush ideas that Rhodesian engineers developed to counter local insurgents. Not sure if this idea ever went into service, but, they did use Claymore-like devices attached to various points, on their vehicles, like the Americans did in Vietnam, grenade dischargers, using pull-string activated, old .303 rifles, to throw grenades in various directions (similar to the S-Mine dischargers on early German Tiger I's), and a twin, AK-47 set up, on the back of a Landrover, that was electrically fired by the driver.
I had a ride in a Rhodesian Cougar once. She's still got my wallet.
@AlanMydland-fq2vs
28 күн бұрын
hahaha now thats funny😂❤
This is Mad Max universe stuff
@ymishaus2266
Ай бұрын
Merely Africa.
@Mthammere2010
Ай бұрын
@@ymishaus2266speak for yourself, Africa is a Continent, with plenty of peaceful places. If there's a shit hole it's because it was dug and filled by neo colonials.
They need that in Oakland, CA.
Almost bought one of those off a car lot there, back in 1977.
I would like to see more stuff like this o/
Never thought to see something from Rhodesia, wow
0:09 - Funny is the guy loading this thing pointed to bystanders.
Thanks for the further explanation in the description, because at first I wasn't sure what I was witnessing. I thought the shotguns were some how rigged to detonate mines, which seemed terribly inefficient. As I understand it, they recently began employing a large species of African rats to detect leftover mines for subsequent disarming.
My girlfriend is a Rhodesian cougar
Didn't rhodesians come out with the first mrap vehicles I swear I thought I heard about something like that
Didn't american army truck drivers use a similar field modification in Vietnam?
@jacksmith7726
Ай бұрын
Yeah claymores mounted on the side of guntrucks.
Ваще юаровские мрапы до сих пор лучше всех
Da Vinci would be proud
Look what happened when they stopped doing this kind of thing.
@kosmokat111
Ай бұрын
sorry you lost ur comfort ethnostate ;(
@TheGrenadier97
Ай бұрын
You should be sorry for what Rhodesia turned into, instead of believing on clichés.
@ymishaus2266
Ай бұрын
@@kosmokat111 Become a statistic
@Mthammere2010
Ай бұрын
@@ymishaus2266you first.
@anthroimperzia3927
Ай бұрын
@@kosmokat111 Okay black ultranationalist.
Spoke to a black guy recently .he said when the white men ruled everything was normal.Clean and civilised.....
@martyyoung3611
Ай бұрын
Of course.
@Mthammere2010
Ай бұрын
Sorry, he must have been a very white guy who painted himself black. when the native population literally signed up to die for free to be rid of that government speakings volumes. Next thing you'd know: you'd be quoting colored Americans claiming slavery was better than being free today.
@johnnycab8986
Ай бұрын
90% of the Rhodesian Army was black Africans too.
Rhodesians never die
@Better_Clean_Than_Green
Ай бұрын
I'm pretty sure John Edmond can live longer than Elizabeth did
@kosmokat111
Ай бұрын
their dipshit empire can though :3
RHODESIA
Rhodesia and Portugal were fighting the good war back then. It's really bizarre when you notice that your enemies are foreign guerrilla and terrorist movements supported by neocolonialist nations and an unholy coalition of US and USSR.
This turned out well for Rhodesia, you know the failed white ethno state which is now Zimbabwe.
@martyyoung3611
Ай бұрын
Why did it fail?
@aircarbonarc
Ай бұрын
@@martyyoung3611 they pissed off the locals and had a shit army of untrained rejects who just got shot as soon as they arrived. The Rhodesian army was a joke
Good to see something from a bad guy country besides the USA.
@erloriel
Ай бұрын
Ah yes, history isn't nuanced or anything. Always full of obvious bad guy and good guy countries. Not like they are an intricate result of the decisions of thousands of powerful people (and the occasional popular movement), reacting with imperfect information to hundreds of circumstances. Nope, easy world, easy history.
@daveweiss5647
Ай бұрын
Huh?
@aircarbonarc
Ай бұрын
Yah Rhodesia got its ass handed to them. They sucked and were destined to fail.