Buffalo Mine Vehicle MRAP
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Complete Buffalo Mine Vehicle MRAP kit in 1/48 scale

Kit contains:

• Resin parts
• Brass rod to make the wheels mobile.
• Brass rod to make the wheels mobile.
• Photo-etching
• Copper wire
  
• Assembly instructions with parts list and color photos: Download instructions

You can also contact us to have this model assembled and painted with the camouflage of your choice.

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Buffalo Mine Vehicle MRAP history

The Buffalo, whose generic name is a MRAP (Mine Resisting Ambush Protected), is a vehicle of about 20 tons. Especially conceived to resist the mines and the ambushes it is equipped with an articulate arm that allows him to handle and to displace the suspected objects.
This contraption has been felt by the Marines Corps since 2003, to assure the openings of roads in Iraq and in Afghanistan.

It is classified in the III category, of the protective levels. The Buffalo offers to the crew a protection against the shootings of light weapons of a calibre of 7,62 mm on the entirely of the hull and also for all windows. The protection is also assured against the exploding contraptions of 15 kg and the terrestrial mines of 20 kg. In option, the vehicle can be equipped with additional armour allowing a protection against the mines fragmentation. The Buffalo MPCV is used by the EOD teams in Iraq for the mine clearance of the roads. 

The Buffalo constructs by the Forces Protection Inc., achieved more 1000 missions of mine clearance without no crew member of this vehicle loses life. The Buffalo uses the wheels and disks made of steel allowing the vehicle to roll on anti-staff mines without undergoing any damage.

5 Buffalo have been delivered to the army French end 2008 for a use in Afghanistan.
At least 35 copies are currently in service in the American Army, which uses them in Iraq and in Afghanistan since 2003.