in the Toyota War of the 1987 Chadian-Libyan conflict, troops from Chad in nimble Toyota trucks were able to trounce the Libyan's with their tanks. Over 7 Libyan soldiers were lost for every Chadian.

Its rear-mounted autocannon allows it to effectively engage air targets. It's also pretty damn effective against anything else that isn't immune to bullets.

The truck carries a LSD-1 anti-aircraft machine gun on the base of the Soviet Vladimirov heavy machine gun and a 32-round block of UB-32 which launches S-5 unguided rockets, also from the USSR. Abdul is holding an AKMS automatic rifle and Walid is posing with his baby, the also Soviet RPG07.

Back in 2011, Libyan's resisted Qaddafi's exhaustive 41-year-old dictatorship regime, resulting in the dictator commandeering attacks on those who protested his rule. Not long after when Qaddafi went into hiding in May of that year, Mollison made his way to Libya to document a central tool that the protestors relied upon to help the insurgence: the "Technical" truck. These civilian-helmed trucks were heavily armed with weapons. Mollison, then on assignment for COLORS Magazine, set up a camera at the final check point and captured these vehicles of war just before they headed into battle. The end result of his time there were a number of photos capturing the valiant civilians riding upon their steel chariots just before battle.

https://www.jamesmollison.com/new-gallery

https://unrtd.co/media/civilian-run-libyan-armed-trucks

https://www.hotcars.com/heres-why-old-rusty-pickups-are-used-in-combat/

https://julesgwhite.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-do-you-get-when-you-combine.html

https://www.mrjakeparker.com/blog/2022/11/8/lybian-battle-trucks

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-toyota-pickup-truck-is-the-war-chariot-of-the-third-world-ea4a121e948b