Torpedo blast

A roadside bomb ripped through a UN convoy carrying Italian peacekeepers at the northen entry of the city of Sidon, in southern Lebanon on Friday. It was the first attack against UN peacekeepers since more than three years. The vehicle destroyed was an Iveco VM 90T Torpedo.

 

Two Italian UNIFIl peacekeepers stand guard next to the destroyed VM 90T, May 27, 2011 (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

 

The destroyed Italian UNIFIL VM 90T (LNA)

 

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Italian UNIFIL Iveco VM 90T, Iveco Eurocargo and Iveco M250 trucks on the scene.

Same Vehicles, rear view.

Lebanese Army M151A1 on the scene.

 

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Italian Mule

A Jpoint mobile checkpoint composed of Lebanese Army elements and a UNIFIL Italian Army Iveco VM 90T Torpedo. A Lebanese Army M151A2 MUTT is approaching.

A UNIFIL Italian Army patrol composed of a Land Rover AR 90 and two Iveco VM 90T Torpedo tactical vehicles.

Credits: Dalati & Nohra.

 

A UNIFIL Italian Army Iveco VM 90T Torpedo on patrol in early 2010, South Lebanon.