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Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle - Outback Camouflage (1:72 Scale)

Dragon German Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle - Outback Camouflage

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Dragon DRR63030 Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle - Outback Camouflage (1:72 Scale) "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."
- Excerpted from British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's "Sinews of Peace" speech delivered at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri, March 5th, 1946

The Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle or Infantry Mobility Vehicle is an Australian-built four-wheel drive armored vehicle. The Bushmaster was primarily designed by the then government-owned Australian Defence Industries (ADI), and is currently produced by Thales Australia with a support contract provided by Oshkosh Truck following the acquisition of ADI. The Bushmaster is currently in service with the Australian Army, Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Netherlands Army, British Army, Japan Ground Self Defense Force, Indonesian Army, Fiji Infantry Regiment, Jamaica Defence Force, New Zealand Army and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The role of the Bushmaster is to provide protected mobility transport (or protected troop lift capability), with infantry dismounting from the vehicle before going into action. As the Bushmaster is lightly armored, the term Infantry Mobility Vehicle (IMV) was initially adopted to distinguish it from a heavier wheeled or tracked armored personnel carrier, such as the ASLAV and M113 also in Australian service. The high-hard steel specified for Bushmaster meant that it offered better ballistic and IED protection than existing aluminum alloy clad ASLAVs and M113. Later the Bushmaster's designation was changed to Protected Mobility Vehicle (PMV)

Pictured here is a 1:72 scale replica of an Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle in an outback camouflage pattern. Now in stock!

Dimensions:
Length: 5-1/4-inches
Width: 2-inches

Release Date: October 2022

Historical Account: "Working the Outback" - In keeping with the vehicle's role and capabilities, the Australian Army designates Bushmaster-equipped infantry units as being motorized, and not mechanized. Following the vehicle's troubled development, a total of 299 Bushmasters were ordered by the Wheeled Maneuver Systems Program Office of the Defence Materiel Organization for the Australian Defence Force (reduced from the 370 which were originally ordered).

Bushmaster deliveries began in 2005 (three years later than was originally scheduled) and were scheduled to be completed in July 2007. Deliveries of the troop-carrier variant (152 vehicles) were completed on June 7th, 2006. Deliveries of the command variant were completed by mid-2006 followed by the delivery of the other variants.