What it s like being behind the wheel of an unstoppable armored vehicle The SVI Max 9 APC is a juggernaut and it costs an arm and leg Brenwin Naidu Motoring editor, reporter and presenter 28 February 2021 - 00:00 The monstrous SVI Max 9 APC. Image: Supplied
The presence of an armoured personnel carrier in any setting is ominous, threatening. Everyone knows that conflict is big business. A mere civilian like me struggles to comprehend the vast extent of the industry responsible for manufacturing apparatus for the purposes of defence (and offence).
My thoughts feel small standing next to the towering juggernaut that is the SVI Max 9 APC. The massive piece of machinery is produced by local outfit SVI Engineering for worldwide markets.
a look at the new hybrid trucks that are operating along that test route. for andreas patterson electric trucks are nothing new he works for the swedish manufacturer scania which has been developing in building electric trucks for a number of years this new model gets its power from overhead contact lines using a pantograph. the silence there is a difference. when you turn off the internal combustion engine or go electric. you still have a little noise from the tires of course but you have no way of brazen and no sign sound from the days of that. there are five kilometers of overhead contract lines in each direction on this stretch of the outer band with tests on the way in northern and southern germany. this is standardized the highway they ve all teachers the same all over the height is the same so this truck can also go on the swedish road and they can also go on the road saying. about it oh well
western germany in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. the transfer of peat didn t glide through a vacuum tube but it did use magnets for propulsion the maglev train had a top speed of four hundred twelve kilometers per hour faster than modern intercity express trains in europe. on september twenty second two thousand and six in the middle of its test route the transfer appeared collided with a maintenance vehicle that was mistakenly on the track twenty three people were killed and ten were injured. today the former test track lies in ruins after the accident the german trans repeat could no longer find an investor. however the system went into operation elsewhere in shanghai
western germany in the mid one nine hundred eighty s. the transfer of p. didn t glide through a vacuum tube but it did use magnets for propulsion the maglev train had a top speed of four hundred twelve kilometers per hour faster than modern intercity express trains in your. concept of the twenty second two thousand and six in the middle of its test route the transfer repeat collided with a maintenance fare call that was mistakenly on the track twenty three people were killed and ten were injured. today the former test track lies in ruins after the accident the german trans repeat could no longer find an investor. however the system went into operation elsewhere in shanghai