You receive a 2002 Toyota Sequoia and a total budget of 50,000 dollars to basically build a DIY Humvee. Go nuts.
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Adam Torres
use the 50K to buy a decommissioned HMMWV uparmor it and mount a machinegun
daily the sequoia and pocket the difference
Dominic Howard
A truck is your "fortress". Escort maybe. We got a technical thread up with ideas for your rig. I this is legit mental masturbation two story dead reckoning or larger. Now picrelated could be a rolling fortress.
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Landon James
>Trade the sequoia for a 85 hilux with an newer engine.
>strip it to bare bones and make some improvised slanted armor
>obligatory 20mm belt fed in the back
Hunter Phillips
>sell seqouia
>buy surplus deuce and a half
>Kevlar and steel reinforce drivetrain and cabin
>use rest of money to beef up suspension and power output
A Seqouia is a shit starting point. You'd be better off positing the question with an old 1/2 or 3/4 ton truck from the late 80s like a C10 or a W250.
Joseph Young
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Jordan Brown
This.
Gabriel Gutierrez
Link me that shit. I need.
Luis King
Look at what the narco-tanks are doing, and look at what people are improvising in the middle east for technicals. You want a balance of armour, firepower, and mobility, weighted more towards whatever you need your vehicle to do. Start with a reliable vehicle on a heavy duty chassis and suspension so it can handle the extra weight. I'd strip out everything unnecessary that the vehicle uses such as cabin electronics, infotainment shit, etc, and then run backups for critical systems. Vehicles stop when the engine or driver gets hit.
Starting with something like a 5 ton 6x6 truck would be a good place to begin
>Diesel, so fuel is less likely to explode if the tank bursts.
>Run multiple smaller tanks and multiple fuel pumps isolated by spaced sheet steel to prevent fuel loss from crippling the vehicle and to help slow fire spread.
>Add fire suppression system throughout the vehicle
>Add a generator to the truck to keep the batteries charged instead of idling the engine, or if the alternator dies.
>Add a secondary radiator, and run electric pusher fans and a mechanical puller fan off the engine.
>Beef up the radiator and add a large coolant reserve so if your radiator gets shot to shit you can still cool the engine long enough to leave the combat zone.
>Armour up the engine compartment and the crew compartment to resist at least .50 caliber rifles, plus slat armour to reduce the impact of shaped charges as much as possible. (Not actually sure what that would weigh)
>Protect the drive shafts
>Skid plates and heavy bumpers
>Run-flat tires.
>Sloped armoured box on the back to house crew, with a turret housing both a heavy machine gun or small autocannon and an automatic grenade launcher to fend off attackers. Add another MG position in the passenger side window, and firing ports along the sides of the vehicle.
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Nathan Clark
BTR-60 or some other BTR type vehicle would be a good start point. They're simple, cheap (surplus vehicles can be got for less than 20 grand.) the entire body can be welded to. They're at least somewhat Chem and bio sealed so you'd be safe from like tear gas attacks. Amphibious. and will certainly stop anything under .50cal.
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Landon Morales
immediately sell it and buy a defender.
Jordan Smith
This looks just like the armored car from the red faction in Just Cause 2.
Carson Barnes
it's gonna go over budget, sue me.
pic related, up armored with machinegun nests along the sides, mortar pit in the middle and extra fuel, munitions and living quarters inside.
give it a gas pump to refuel support vehicles so you can use a screen of motorcycles to spot targets for the mortars and a couple of SUV's to scout ahead and to the sides
Charles Taylor
Take a couple of existing tank turrets from something plentiful and Soviet (T-55, T-62, T-72, etc) and stick them side by side up on the flat portion above the driver's cab.
Parker Thomas
are we trying to capture petrol in the Australian desert?
Carson Martin
Would a civilian armoured truck be a good place to start? You've already then got a vehicle with some bullet resistance so up-armouring would be simpler.
Eli King
They are really heavy and bad off road + windows aren't resistant to anything above a . 308
Austin Anderson
>Halo theme song intensifies
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Justin Thomas
Does not anyone here consider the gas mileage for these mastodonts? Doesn't matter how heavily armored it is if you can't keep it moving. It's not as if gas will be a limited item in SHTF, hmm?
Camden Johnson
OP never said anything about SHTF, the situation might be as simple as having to cross a bad part of town, in which case 1 MPG and a 100 mile range is more than enough. Still, most of these designs use a truck chassis that's gonna have huge fuel tanks so while MPGs are down, you can make the most of every bit of fuel you find.
Remember gas is also only going to last a year or two before it expires now that it contains ethanol, so you'll be limited to diesel vehicles anyway.
If I was doing a SHFT type vehicle, I'd start with a 1973-1987 K2500 Suburban, swap in a 5.9l Cummins, and only armour up critical areas like the engine bay, radiator, door panels (like pic related) and fuel tanks to resist the common stuff up to .308. That way I'm not adding multiple tons of armour that probably won't be anything more than a problem 99% of the time.
Jose Garcia
i sell the toyota and go grab an second hand T-55 from Ahmed.
Jackson Perez
no Clark.
Levi Wilson
Roll'em up!