Tuesday, December 1, 2009

The Amatoya: Meet the next generation of fire fighting vehicles

Amatoya Reconnaissance and Suppression Vehicle - Click above for ikon gallery

Designer Liam Ferguson's vision of how to fisticuffs fires nearly makes us desire we were firemen – as daylong as we could hit the keys to digit of these. The Amatoya is a site recon and light tanker container designed with a belief such more expeditionary than civilian. The seating function is same that of a AH-1 Cobra gunship, with the co-pilot up and behind the driver. The Amatoya is shapely on a monococque poise body, same brachiate forces MRAPs, insulated with NASA's aerogel, and varnished with "military evaluate sacrificial thermo instrumentation intumescent paints."

The Remotely Operated Suppression Cannon Outfit (ROSCO) can has a 2,200-liter (581 gallons) amount water capacity, every the meliorate for the fact that the gathering members don't requirement to leave the container to employ it. Nor should they hit such problem effort to the fire, with absurd clearances every around, directional spotlights, and a thermal imaging camera. The only anaemic saucer would materialize to be the foam tires, which would melt daylong before the Space-Shuttle-worthy embody would.

Still, we'd take digit in a second. Take a look at it yourself in the gallery of photos below.


Gallery: Amatoya Reconnaissance and Suppression Vehicle


[Source: Yanko Design]

Filed under: Concept Cars, Specialty, Design/Style

Tags: amatoya, concept, firefighting, liam ferguson, LiamFerguson, yanko design, YankoDesign



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