Thread: New Camper

The prime reason the NZ Army purchased this family of medium-heavy trucks is that the UK Defence Force offered them up real cheap. Back in the mid 00's the UK MOD put in an order for thousands of these trucks...then promptly downsized their Force by 25%. (since 2010 they have dropped a further 40% of their personnel strength...throwing up even more kit to be sold) But the funds had already been committed. So they were left holding thousands excess to requirement, and hit up their mates to see if they were interested in the deal of the century.

The MAN family of trucks themselves have limited cross country capability for several reasons: Their tare weight is crazy high...cause they are built to accept tons of modular armour to improve troop survivabilty. This rules out coil suspension. They also have a payload (when not armoured) of 6 tonne, vs the mogs of 4 tonne.

The MAN family of military trucks purposely use as many parts from their commercial family of trucks. So that rules out portal hubs, which reduces the MAN's ground clearance significantly.

The trucks are also very wide. 2.55m. So are over width for NZ roads. So legally need to wear overwidth fluro placards everywhere.

Being so heavy their fuel consumption is 50% more than a Mog. 30L/100km vs 20L/100km. @Mistral 's one may be even more fuel efficient than that, given his motor sports 40 year younger technology.

I see the NZDF is going to reduce its Mog fleet by 90 ish vehicles some time later in 2024.......