Gibbs Amphibious Vehicles have been around for a while but recently announced a partnership with ST Kinetics in Singapore for marketing and development in the region.
[browser-shot width=”600″ url=”http://www.stengg.com/press-centre/press-releases/st-kinetics-enters-into-marketing-partnership-with-gibbs”]The target market is security and civil resilience/disaster relief where it will compliment the Bronco, or ExtremeV
Gibbs make two models, the 20 foot long Humdinga and longer Phibian
How many shall we buy?
Their Quadski was shown on Top Gear a week or so ago :)
Should still be available on iPlayer for those in the UK.
Any failure to procure something called a Humdinga* is unforgivable, and would bring the ghost of Spike Milligan (ex-RA, after all) down upon us all in terrible wrath.
*= Especially when it’s a light, rugged, short-body load carrier that can also nip around brown water at a rate of knots.
You would think the gentlemen in Poole would be very interested in those….
Ideal for Libya or Somalia type operations. Drive it off the vehicle deck of an LPD through the dock and be ashore in no time. Would give you the ability to pop up all over the place, and escape pretty quickly.
Chris, think the warranty does not cover 5.56 damage :)
Saw it a while back, it’s not really game changing as a vehicle, logistically similar to the LARC, which we still have in service and might be the replacement. Would help in IED territory if there is a convenient river about, but it doesn’t look like it has much ground clearance, and the wheels look too fragile to take much abuse.
Logistics vehicle, but I can’t really rule out the possibility of an armoured assault boat version.