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UNTAC Perentie 110 DShK Mount (Sisophon 1993)
Australian Army Perentie 4x4 of the UNTAC Force Communications Unit in United Nations white at Sisophon, Cambodia, August 1993 (Australian War Memorial P02570.013): canvas cab top with the tray open and a restored Soviet DShK 12.7 mm heavy machine gun on a pedestal, mounted for a day as a joke on the neighbouring Dutch marines.
BASE VEHICLEPerentieBUILT BYJRA Limited (Jaguar Rover Australia)IN SERVICE1987–93OPERATED INAustralia, Cambodia, United NationsPRODUCTION1LAYOUT4 wheels · 110″
The record
The Force Communications Unit was Australia's main contribution to the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (1992–93), its signallers scattered in detachments across the provinces with their Perentie Land Rovers repainted UN white. At Sisophon in Banteay Meanchey province the Australians shared a compound with Dutch marines, and in August 1993, as the mission wound down, a DShK 12.7 mm heavy machine gun that had been handed in and restored by the unit's fitters was bolted to a pedestal in the back of one of the unit's Perenties — an unarmed signals vehicle — to give the Dutch a fright. The Memorial's photograph records the result before the gun came off again.
The registry model is the Perentie 4x4 in UN white with its canvas top cut back to a cab top, the tray open, the DShK on its pedestal with ammunition box and spade grips, a camouflage net draped over the tray side and UN on the doors. As an armed vehicle in the game it can fire; the real mounting was strictly temporary and for show.
MODIFIER / COACHBUILDERUNTAC Force Communications Unit (UN repaint; temporary DShK pedestal)
MANUFACTUREDPerentie 4x4 production; photographed August 1993
ENGINEIsuzu 4BD1 3.9 L diesel
PRODUCTION RUN1
COUNTRY OF ORIGINAustralia
OPERATED INAustralia, Cambodia, United Nations
STATUShistoric
FITTINGSCab-top canvas, open tray, DShK 12.7 mm on pedestal (temporary), camouflage net, UN white
RECORD KINDNamed model
MODEL LINEPerentie
WHEELS4
NOMINAL WHEELBASE110″
CATEGORYMilitary · United Nations, Military · Australia
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Imagery
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Where it was
AU Australia1987–2012KH Cambodia1992–1993 · UNTAC Force Communications Unit