Review by Peter Brown
Contents -
Editorial (half-page in German)
Request for information on old wheeled vehicles including traction engines, one page
Israeli RAM light APC, patrol and fire support vehicle, six pages of general and detail photos with two small general plans
FAMO 18 ton halftrack, seven pages mostly photos of a restored vehicle in colour with some period black and white photos
Passenger and Field Cars of the East German Armed Forces is a ten-page study showing a wide range of 4x4 and domestic cars in NVA service
Puma, ten pages on the new German infantry combat vehicle
M113A3 Add-On Armor Suite, four pages plus full-page photo on back cover of "bar armour" and commander's gun shield fitted to M113 in Iraq
Observer/Controller HMMWV, four pages of specially-equipped vehicles in Germany
Active Response/Active Lion, five page photo report on this first Belgian large-scale exercise for many years with various vehicles shown
HS-30 hard targets, two pages showing old German APCs used as targets on the ranges
Combat Correspondent, two pages of colour photo of Rumanian EUFOR wheeled armour and softskins in the Balkans
Archive Section with one-page coverage of the French AMC P16/M29 halftrack armoured car, restored Polish TKS tankette, Renault V1 TRM 10000 CLD heavy recovery truck and Rumanian DAC 665T six-wheel truck with shelter
Newsletter, two pages in German only with colour photos of various modern vehicle news
Once again, a well produced edition which comes highly recommended with more good material
Available from Tankograd distributors, for more details contact the publishers Verlag Jochen Vollert on jochenvollert@tankograd.com
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