Posted on 05/07/2021 9:08:39 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
New dashcam footage showing what was going on outside the vehicle during the failed CIT robbery attempt.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
A forward-facing dashcam added to the early view of the driver and assistant taking fire while driving in South Africa.
Turns out the assistant is an FNG! FOURTH DAY ON THE JOB! Third day on the road. IMO; he does a fine job.
Yes, everyone wants him to run the bandits over at the roadblock, driving with a body on the windshield and or stuck on top of three or four of them could be a problem?
Enough going on to set your hair on fire!
A comment said this video is being zaprudered!
I really want to see a map overlay of his maneuvers with comments on the strategic situation?
Why they chopped it, I don't know.
Amazing footage, for what exists.
I hope everything came out ok.
He was transportating the latest in cell phones.
—”I hope everything came out ok.”
The driver chased them on foot into a McDonald’s where they dropped two AKs and ran into a crowd and he lost them.
Unfortunately with fame comes detractors and they are receiving many death threats.
Also in the video of the first post, when he is on the phone, it is not true that he was calling around for a different job.
He’s driving a Series 70 (commercial/military) Land Cruiser, armored. It isn’t going to be bothered in the least by three or four bodies and it is tall enough that it isn’t likely to collect one on the windshield.
Donut Operator on YouTube has a good video covering this incident complete with after action pictures.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dnT1a00czA
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Don’t know why he stopped and got out. Should have just kept driving to his destination. Seemed to me his assailants didn’t have it all-together so not much to worry about in an up-armored vehicle.
I liked the link, thanks.
Many interesting comments.
I’ve had friends ask if saw the shooter in the side window, now I have!
—”Series 70 Land Cruiser”
A quick search shows the payload of 780Kg/1700lb- 1220Kg/2700lb.
More than a few ways to protect a vehicle, all of them heavy to extremely heavy.
Notice the lack of deflection when he hits the white truck?
This beast drives like the Queen Mary.
At the end of this video, it is clear he is hung up on top of something?
https://satrucker.co.za/watch-dashcam-footage-of-cash-van-crew-under-attack-from-cit-robbers/
Also does not appear to have all that much ground clearance, see photos after video in the link.
“The Single-Cab chassis, with a payload of about 1220kg (driver, passengers, and tray included), can carry the
most....The 76 Wagon, with a payload of 780kg (driver and passengers included) can carry the least.”
Guessing that the Land Cruiser is well over the operating weightlimit, yes they upgrade the suspension.
—”Don’t know why he stopped and got out.”
More here, watch to the end, he is stuck!!! 3 minutes
https://satrucker.co.za/watch-dashcam-footage-of-cash-van-crew-under-attack-from-cit-robbers/
SOP for the locals is to apply explosives to obtain access to the cargo.
Sitting in the truck is sitting in the kill zone.
And given time you stand ZERO chance.
CLOSE WITH AND DESTROY YOUR ENEMY IS THE ONLY WAY OUT!
THEY OFTEN SET THEM ON FIRE, YOU ARE SITTING IN AN ARMORED COFFEN.
FNG...Nobody by that name.
Had to check?
I did not intend to besmirch anyone!
Perhaps I incorrectly assumed most were familiar with the accromym?
F’n NEW GUY.
Toyota doesn’t offer an armored Land Cruiser 70, so it’s likely that it’s a conversion done by a local coachbuilder. There’s more than a few firms in South Africa that perform such conversions.
I wouldn’t put much stock in the thing’s parked height being normal operation height - a lot of armored vehicle conversions use airbag suspensions/helper springs that can deflate when the vehicle is parked, or can deflate if you rip out the air lines to them by driving over something.
Armored vehicle conversions usually incorporate engine modifications to compensate for the extra weight, and it already had a fairly torquey 317lb-ft turbodiesel to start. My guess, given how it accelerates and the evident armor thickness and weight, is that it was probably more in the 500 range the way it moved. It’s interesting that it’s a converted GXL-trim Double Cab Pickup version - usually those conversions for ‘working’ armored vehicles are built off more spartan trims.
Either way, that LC is simply not going to care about three or four people in front of it. It will simply plow forward, especially if he slaps the transfer case lever down into 4WD High or down and across to 4WD Low. Those things have stump-pulling drivetrains and since they’re sold in a troop carrier variant, they’re on video plowing under crowds of ‘demonstrators’ or ‘rebels’ many times in the past three decades they’ve been made.
The other thing, even if that wasn’t true, is that the armor was failing and wouldn’t take too many more hits. A few more hits to the big starred spots and they’d start coming through.
I would suggest that the company that had those made should invest in adding some gun ports for next time.
—”Either way, that LC is simply not going to care about three or four people in front of it.”
At the end of the video, it appears that he is high centered and fanning the shifter 1st to rev...?
Any clues if he was using 4wd low? Locking difs? Traction control? Do they come with electronic traction control?
All that weight is not at all helpful in getting the beast to move, looks to be high centered, stuck like a turtle on a post?
The LC70 of recent vintage comes stock with: "Vehicle Stability Control (VSC), Hill-start Assist Control (HAC), Electronic Brake-force Distribution and Active Traction Control (A-TRAC)." They also come with electric diff locks, see 1:29 on this video: https://youtu.be/1f_9lZmuk9w
FNG has not posted in years.
When the driver drove between the boxed truck on the left and the bandit’s vehicle on the right, he had an excellent opportunity to take out two of the occupants- that, were avoiding being hit by the armored vehicle by hugging the space between the two open doors and the main body of the vehicle.
The driver could have easily sideswiped the vehicle’s left side crushing the two bandits with the right side of the armored vehicle and smashing them against the body of their own vehicle. The two open doors would have offered little resistance and likely would have been ripped off by the impact.
It would have been a spectacular sight to see justice dispensed so quickly and efficiently and to watch it repeatedly in review, would bring unmatched satisfaction to civilized parts of the world.
I know that I have the benefit of hindsight but what an outcome if the driver had sideswiped the bandit's vehicle crushing to death the two goombahs caught just outside their vehicle with the right side of the armored vehicle in an explosively violent pincer move.
—”FNG has not posted in years.”
Probably no longer an FNG?
—”It would have been a spectacular sight to see justice dispensed”
True!
But just one body blocking the windshield, a vital wire shorting out from minor crash damage, a door getting stuck under his truck...
And Leo and Loyd would have been sitting in an armored coffin!
Yes, there is some disagreement on this thread, but no one here had to make that call.
“And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.”
Nice screen capture!!!
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