The Safest Mine Detector | Pookie Light Landmine Detection Vehicle

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The Pookie was a Light Landmine Detection Vehicle with Mine Protected Armored Vehicle (MPAV) features developed by the Republic of Rhodesia in November 1976. It was used by the Rhodesian Army during the final stages of the Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979) for road demining tasks.
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@ptonpc 3 года назад

Inventive. The Rhodesians were able to make the best with what they had.

@bromine_35 3 года назад

Rhodesians were some of the best of their generation Sad to see them loose to the dark horde

@rogerc6533 2 года назад

@@bromine_35 whites being manipulated by "whites" are their own worst enemy

@ernestov2001 2 года назад

@@bromine_35 Maybe if the Rhodesians didn't oppressed the local population the country would probably exist today.

@gaymer42069 2 года назад

@@bromine_35 racist pig. Don’t try to act smart. Wah wah cry harder your favorite ethnostate collapsed under the weight of its own flaws.

@nonyabeeznuss304 3 года назад

Whats interesting is that the modern day US route clearance vehicle, the Husky, bears many design similarities to it.

@teslashark 3 года назад

It's made by a South African company that apparently also worked on some of these

@markaxworthy2508 3 года назад

Most of the country was on graded dirt roads. There was no way that the Pookie operated mine detection on them at 80kph! I remember crawling along dirt roads behind one in a Puma in Mangwende North TTL in 1978 or 1979. It is worth mentioning that Rhodesia could not produce armour plate and that the hull was from specially treated conventional steel plate.

@walterscientist 3 года назад

It was because of those F1 tires :D Really I'd say that 80kph was probably the top speed and as the mine detection was not really affected by speed one can say that the vehicle could detect mines at speeds up to 80kph - despite never being able to actually go that fast in practical operation. Later they say they could only move at 20kph... so I dunno - possibly later vehicles lacked the original gearbox? Putting a multi-speed gearbox from a passenger car into this contraption seems like waste of weight considering it probably only needs to ever use first gear.

@tim_14777 3 года назад

Yeah as I recall alot of the early mine protected hulls were specially treated mild steel that turned out to work better than armor due "bending" rather than "breaking'? There is an excellent book, Taming the Landmine, on this topic.

@christophersilsby7829 3 года назад

I have heard of the US ARMY, used high speed vehicles to set of land mines, that went of behind them, because of their rate of speed. But they didn't work with "Command detonated" mine.

@markaxworthy2508 3 года назад

@@christophersilsby7829 I don't think that is likely. There is no delay in a conventional mine blast. It is instantaneous.

@lairdcummings9092 2 года назад

@@markaxworthy2508 actually, no. Even in the most sensitive detonator, there is measurable 'lock time,' during which the ignition mechanism train acts to initiate the main charge. The lock time can be *very* short (milliseconds) but is definitely not 'instant.' That said, a high-speed vehicle would be rather implausible.

@maxkronader5225 3 года назад

Out of necessity, the Rhodesians embraced the K.I.S.S. principle whenever possible.

@williammcdorman6426 3 года назад

Little things like this can make a huge impact on a military operation, great video, I was unaware of the vehicle and trust me that is unusual.

@helohel5915 3 года назад

It's sooooo... simplistic? Surprised such a thing was so effective

@arandomfawn5289 3 года назад

The simple but effective is a strategem that works in every situation no matter the conditions. More complicated = higher chance of errors to happen.

@PaperThinArmor 3 года назад

For something that looks like it was built in Gmod its surprising that it was actually useful.

@GerardMenvussa 3 года назад

I always like demining vehicles for how weird and unusual their shape is :)

@dannyvisser3435 3 года назад

There was also the problem of the terrs putting AP mines on top of the TM46's. I saw 3 Pookies flying thru the sky in one day

@arandomfawn5289 3 года назад

They got yeeted

@alouisschafer7212 2 года назад

The Volkswagen platform was used all round the world for various vehicles. It proved simple, cheap and indestructible so to me it is not surprising at all to see it used here aswell. Even combine harvesters came with the standard aircooled VW engine.

@Aetrion 2 года назад

Calling rule by a white minority "meritocratic and segregationist" kind of rubs me the wrong way. Meritocracy is social stratification based on competence, so saying an apartheid state ruled by white people is meritocratic is either saying that white people are better, which is racist, or it's trying to say that meritocracy is somehow inherently linked to racism, which is radical left nonsense.

@JohnDoe-il9ug 2 года назад

It's a meritocracy because the best man for the job got the job. And it was segregationist because the races have a hard time living together, who cares if it's racist why does that matter? They made it equal and it collapsed, same thing in south Africa and everywhere.

@fastloose 3 года назад

I was one of the first Pookie drivers and operated in Mt Dawin area Mike Hines

@gregabregar4105 2 года назад

Know any certain Robin Walker? He was a DC of the area around 1975

@fastloose 2 года назад

Sorry didn't know him We also operated much further up to mukimbura and chapinga as well

@markaxworthy2508 2 года назад

Thanks for your work then. I remember crawling along behind one of you guys in Mangwende North TTL. We had lost two or three Crocs and/or Pumas to mines on a previous penetration without the services of a Pookie. Bill Barkiss at CMED Mtoko was not impressed at the sudden increase in his workload.

@gregabregar4105 2 года назад

And that is why Rhodesians never die!

@patriotenfield3276 3 года назад

Rhodesians Never die.

@samgeorge4798 3 года назад

Idk I don't see it on the map

@cornebod 2 года назад

The safest mine detection is always done by someone other then yourself, if it goes boom you're guaranteed to be 👌

@istoppedcaring6209 2 года назад

rhodesia had a troubled history but even at it's worst Zimbabwe was worse, and at it's best it became pretty damn good by African standards

@thefreedomguyuk 2 года назад

Indeed. Mind you....who has kept the Zimbabwean economy ticking over ?

@christopping5876 2 года назад

'Pookie' is the local name for a lesser bush baby, a type of Galagos, a small nocturnal predator that has acute hearing and excellent night time vision. An accurate summary of the creation of Rhodesia and subsequent civil war. Thank you for the excellent video, I remember seeing them on the roads in my youth.

@srice8959 2 года назад

I ain’t gonna lie I kinda like The Pookie!! It looks like a Go-Kart on Steroids that I’d have drawn in my Notebook while I was sitting in class bored off my ass!!!! It also looks really fun to drive too

@bobwinters6665 3 года назад

The safest most effective landmine detonator was the Sherman Flail. They cleared the Normandy Beaches & inland roads in days. The concept of steamroller weight wheels with logging chains attached is still in use.

@alpacatwoniner2370 3 года назад

@Tank Encyclopedia have you ever heard of the device called “the vulcan”? Its this device that sets up over top of a mine or other UXO and it shoots a jet of thermite(?) downwards and consumes the explosive. I saw this on a tv show a few years back, so I may have the details wrong

@yzrippin 2 года назад

American armed forces will spend billions of dollars on these pointless devices rather than lobbing a $4 hand grenade when they think there's something there

@thefreedomguyuk 2 года назад

Just go back to your video games !!

@scrubsrc4084 3 года назад

A vehicle design that was not far from the mark if you look at some modern mine clearing vehicles.

@fastloose 3 года назад

We had a spinerkop mine detection which was a grader with mine detection pads but t was useless

@barrag3463 3 года назад

I wonder if you could make a modern remotely operated version

@thefreedomguyuk 2 года назад

I grew up around the corner, and will say the bit of this commentary covering the humanitarian and political background isn't entirely correct. All involved parties in 76 were fundamentally wrong.

@comentedonakeyboard 3 года назад

Ingenious and simplistic solution for a still pressing problem 👍

@justindunlap1235 2 года назад

One thing I might add to this vehicle is a couple of sporting field line markers on each side, that way you just fill the hoppers with chalk and lay down a marked lane of safe travel.