Reading material: K-ISOM Special Special Operation Vehicles

There are many car magazines, but only one that deals with tactical vehicles. At the table lies the new special edition of K-ISOM, which has collected everything there is to know about modern operational vehicles used by Special Operations - military and police and insurgents.

We don't want to describe much, the table of contents is a complete list of the vehicles in this issue:

01 Editorial, Contents.
02 History of Special Vehicles.
04 Future and requirements of Special Operations Vehicles (SOV).
06 Australian Special Operations Command (SOCOMD) "Perentie".
14 Belgian Special Forces Group Unimog PATSAS, Iveco LMV, "Fox".
20 Cameroon "Thunder" Mk1 Ford.
21 Jaegerkorpset Supacat HMT.22 Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK) AGF "Serval", ATV "Dingo", Mowag "Eagle" IV, "Wolf" GL, KTM, OEF HMMWV, TPZ "Fuchs", Quad, ATV.
38 Mercedes G LRPV 6×6, Rheinmetall MAN MPV, "Survivor".
40 BAE RG3 2M Light Tactical Vehicle.
42 COS Renault, Panhard, Acmat, Quad.

46 UKSF Land Rover.
50 UK SFSG Supacat "Jackal" 1,2,2A, "Coyote".
52 Iraqi SOF HMMWV.
54 Israeli Tactical Vehicles Ford "Wolf", Land Rover, Willys, HMMWV.
56 COMFOSE VAV Land Rover Defender 90 & Iveco VLM.
58 Jordan SOCOM "Al Jawad" Ford, "Al Tha Lab" Toyota Landcruiser, "Iris" 4×4, "Saxon" COIN.
63 KMAR NL YPR 765, KCT Mercedes GL G280 CDI.
66 Jagdkommando Puch G290 LP "Sandviper".
70 POLSOCOM M1165A1 HMMWV GMV SF, GROM Mercedes GL 290 GD, M-ATV Oshkosh, Desert Strike Vehicles.
75 Speznas GAZ "Tigr", "Vistrel" Kamaz, Ural Bunker Box, BTR 80.
78 CH AAD 10 Leichtes Aufklärungs- und Unterstützungsfahrzeug (LAUF).
80 US SOF SOCOM HMMWV GMV, US Army Ranger Land Rover Ranger Special Operations Vehicle (RSOV), USMC Mercedes Interim Fast Attack Vehicle (IFAV), SEAL Fast Attack Vehicle (FAV/DPV).
87 MRAP SOF Oshkosh & Navistar.
88 SOCOM MRAP Oshkosh M-ATV.
90 SOCOM/SOCEUR RG33A1 CAT1. 93 SOCOM Projects: HDT "Storm" SRVT, Jeep J8 LPV, Polaris "Dagor" ULCV, "Flyer" ALSV, ATV, Quad.
96 HMMWV Damage Report.
98 SWAT & Police: Lenco BearCat, Lenco BEAR, Land Rover LE, Israeli Jeep & Ford, RG31 Models, Mowag CH, Puch CH, SEK Thyssen Sonderwagen 4, CZ Mercedes GL URNA, Ost-Panzerwagen, Leitersysteme & M.A.R.S.
116 Special Intervention Commercials: Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes.
120 Technicals: Ideas and concepts.
124 Improvised attack vehicles of ODA Green Berets in AFG.
126 Toyota wars.

CONCLUSION: A good overview of the Special Operations Vehicles. The magazine is a picture book with the best images known from recent years.

K-ISOM Special "Special Operation Vehicles" has 114 pages and costs Euro 9.90. It is available in well-stocked magazine shops or on Amazon.