The SAMIL 50 with a water tank body: the water bowser of the range's medium class.
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Water had to be carried to units in the dry north of South West Africa and in Angola; the SAMIL 50 and SAMIL 100 were both built as water tankers, the SAMIL 50 among the versions Jane's listed in 1985.
Research status: draft — identification, dates or figures could not all be pinned down; the summary says what is unresolved.
Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.
Base model variants
Factory colours
Codes on hover. Hex values are representative approximations of period paint unless a source states a measured value.
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