Named after a venomous snake WTF. It’s not named after a bloody snake found in the Amazon. It’s name the Bush Master because it’s fucking good in the bush. 🙄.

Mate, I'm a retired Australian truck driver and I have carried a lot of bushmasters, let me say that pictures and videos don't do these justice, seeing them in the flesh and driving them whilst loading and unloading them, these things are an absolute beast, I've carried them when they have come back after hitting an IED, the only damage they suffer is the wheels and suspension got blown off and nothing penetrated the cabin area, no one inside was hurt in any way, I've seen one that took a round from a 50cal at point blank range to the windscreen and the round did not pierce the glass, an absolutely incredible machine 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍👍 Good video mate.

it was NOT named after a South American snake! Australian wilderness is known as 'the bush', and the name refers to the offroad all-terrain capabilities of the vehicle, 'mastering' those.

As an Australian, the term 'Bush Master' has nothing to do with some foreign snake (40 second mark). We Aussies call the woods, the bush. And this infantry vehicle wants to own the bush, and be the boss of that terrain, hence the term 'master'. If we wished to name this wagon after a snake, well we are not short of names. We have the most poisonous snakes in the world, that would eat a 'bushmaster' for breakfast.

The Bushmaster snake is native to South America and is not found in Australia. The vehicle name comes from being a master of the bush. If Australia was going to name this vehicle after a snake they have a multitude of their own native venomous snakes they could have selected. A simple google search would have identified this.

It was the only IED proof vehicle during the Iraq and Afghan wars. 80 lost in combat no Australian soldiers killed.

Oshkosh doesn't own ADI, Thales does. The Bushmaster was primarily designed by the then government-owned Australian Defence Industries (ADI), and is currently produced by Thales Australia following their acquisition of ADI.

I am retired now but was lucky to work for a company that supplied a number components for both the Bushmaster and the Hawkei. They were built in Bendigo Victoria Australia by Thales (pronounced Tallis). Watching these being assembled you got to see the amazing design technology that made them practically impervious to IUDs. The fun part was attending the testing when they were blowing them up. Man oh man, the ground shook that day and the armoured bodies, whilst certainly showing signs of significant damage were intact. Back in the day the Bushmaster had the honour of being the only armoured troop carrier in Afghanistan in which no soldiers were killed when they encountered an IUD. Both the Bushmaster and the Hawkei are unquestionably world leaders in this field. Something Australians should be rightly proud of.

As a EX APC / ADF Crew Commander The Bushmaster Vehicle is beyond outstanding for the want of a better word I must say .....JB

The Bushmaster is not named after the snake. It is named after mastery of countryside which is called the Bush in Australia. Therefore it is a master of the Bush so Bushmaster it is.

It’s not a lethal weapon, it’s something that stops weapons being lethal.

The Bushmaster demonstrates that when Australian engineers are given a blank sheet and a reasonable amount of money, they can build a world class machine. As an Australian, I'm proud that their deployment in Ukraine has played a big part in helping push back the Russian invasion. It's illegal to privately own one (although personally, it would be fun to drive one around some Australian capital cities, nobody would want to engage in road rage with one of those) I can imagine them possible being bought as military surplus later and deployed in special operations teams in various state police forces.

It is not a truck. It is a BATTLE-BUS.

One correction the vehicle was designed by Timoney (IRL). In 1999, ADI Ltd (later known as Thales Australia), a licensee of designs and technology developed by Timoney, was awarded a contract to manufacture 350 infantry mobility vehicles (IMV) for the Australian Defence Force (ADF). This vehicle, the Bushmaster, was based on the Timoney MP44

The Bushmaster is an excellent military vehicle but I doubt it " shocked Russia"!

It’s not nano meters , it’s newton metres of torque

Its called Bushmaster because it's the master of the bush, the predecessor was called the Bush Hunter.

Best wishes to our Ukrainian mates. We stand with you all 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇦🇺🇺🇦

Look forward to seeing our Bushmasters drive into Sevastopol

Well done cuzzies. This will be a massive help to Ukraine. I've already seen a thank you video from some soldiers who received them. They seemed to love them.

As an Aussie, so proud 🇦🇺👍🏽

God Bless those serving in Ukraine 🇺🇦

The Aussies make good vehicles and the Bushmaster is a great vehicle.

Everything coming out of Australia is lethal.

It has very good airconditioning too.

Can say from first hand experience. It's an absolute weapon of a vehicle

Nothing to do with snakes🤦 Australians refer to just about any area outside of cities as "The Bush". Bushmaster means you'll dominate in the bush.

Yeah I gotta say if we had named the bush master after a venomous snake it would be one of ours.... take your pick..... King brown, Copperhead, Deathadder, Redbelly Black, Just so you know our snakes are far more deadly then what you will find in the Amazon.

Most of this inovation came from the Rhodesian and South African bush wars. RPG and mine protection was greatly improved in these conflicts.

Very proud of our Bushmaster vehicles, I watch the Fire king variants drive past all the time.

Maybe "surprised", but not shocked. When you send an RPG into a "soft" vehicle, and it doesn't blow up!

Great video. I work with these every single day. Your video was very informative. You missed the newest released variant, Strikemaster.

Incredible facts …… I just read some more “incredible facts” from some other fake news outfit …… Apparently, The Russian military spotted those “lethal armored vehicles” from Australia and they all instantly filled their knickers out of fear ….. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sounds like Ukraine has more bushmasters than Australia

Bushmaster's competitor was called a Taipan which is one of, if not the, most dangerous snake in the world - however the Taipan lost the tender in competition with the Bushmaster.

The vehicle was actually designed for the Irish Defence forces back in the early 90s designed Prototyped by Timoney Technology of Ireland 🇮🇪 Timoney along with Pearce and Stevenson entered the vehicle in the competition run by the Australian Defence forces along with another Timoney vehicle entered by British company. The Timoney Bushmaster finally win the competition. The Irish Defence forces were waiting to see how the vehicle did in the Australian competition. The Irish Defence forces wanted the vehicle but the Department of Defence decided not to go with the vehicles as the Australians adopted it for themselves. Ireland's loss Australians gain. The vehicle was designed for long range patrol along the Irish border and for overseas service with the United Nations. As a number of Irish troops had been killed over the years in service at home and overseas deployment in the Lebanon and other countries with IEDs, the Defence forces went to Timoney Technology to design a vehicle that would be able to protect personal on board even when hit by a IED. The Irish government owned 39% of the company. Timoney designed a number of vehicles for the Irish Defence forces but ended up with foreign armys instead. The came about with the need to build vehicles for the Defence forces of Ireland. Timoney works extensively with other companies throughout the world especially within the United States with Ford GM and other such companies that built engines, much of the technology used by these companies are patents solely owned by Timoney but licensed to the companies. Since the conception of Timoney back in the late 60s by Professor S. Timoney and his brothers in response to the troubles started in the North. The company has been on the go ever since. A number of years ago Timoney owned 39% of a company in which many of Timoney designs were built under license the prototypes were built by Timoney and Timoney would build few pre-order samples to have tested with the military ect. Before going forward for serial production. Much of the vehicles had also been offered to the Irish Defence forces and subsequently found their way to other militarys around the world. Many military over the world would have a number of Timoney vehicles and much of their other vehicles would also have Timoney components installed in the vehicles. Timoney Technology actually built their first heavy all electric fire tenders back in the 80s or late 70s which was featured on Tomorrow's World bbc program for their technology.

The names Thales is a reference to Thales of Miletus, one of the 7 wise men of Ancient Greece.

im glad our bushmasters are doing their job and are well liked !

It might be a digital voice, being the reason why Thales is not pronounced the way they pronounce it. Thales is French and pronounced "Tah-les". This is merely a promo for the manufacturer, which is very reasonable anyway.

This addition to Ukraine's military is good. However what they really need is a medium range missle that will reach Russian territory. So far, Putin has not paid a price for missle attacks on Ukraine. It is way past that time to return the favor.

ive crewed on the fire king in forrest fires....amazing vehicle

I hear those bushmaster snakes are really dangerous!!! Lucky we dont have anything like that in Australia.

The world does not understand the Australian mind and heart we are the strongest people in the world

v hull underneath that pushes explosions underneath the vehicle sideways hence its great survivability against ied. ive been in one when they were parked at my work. it is a beast of a vehicle.

I see the bushmaster is using some tec from South Africa in the form of the V hull first used on the Casspir , looks like a awesome fighting machine

I've spent all week lifting iron sheets and all sorts of dodgy stuff and I haven't found a single bushmaster snake, plenty of browns Taipan's and the odd tiger snake. Must be bloody rare? Anyhoooo must go now my ambulance has arrived at the hospital apparently multiple snake bites require anti venom

It also mounts the 40mm mk19 and up.

Yeah...I'd review sending any further technology to Indonesia for a start...

Built the Aussie way, improved with experience.

For - Robert Jones, Anton Rosik, Giorgio Cooper and Bruce MacKinnon. With all your wisdom, could you please tell us what military experience you have to make all these very informed comments.

Well if we wrestle crocodiles as in Crocodile Dundee in Australia a Bushmaster for nearly two decades with modular variants is no problem. The same but modular is the key here. "If it's not broke don't try to fix it."

19👍's up thank you for sharing

Do like seeing them go past my house, and seeing the diggers doing a bit of shopping in town, or sometime just fuelling up at the servo!

Frickin awesome

put some tim tams in there for that extra moral support from us aussies

Bushmaster are great I drove them for Forestry SA fighting pine plantation fires

All that said,can it handle the Parramatta road at peak hour?

That'd be cool to take down on a Coles trip on the weekend cobahh

Yep. The Australian army. In to win.

Fyi Mr Narrator. When giving specifications for power and torque in Metric; NM doesn't mean "Nanometres, it means Newton metres.

I wish all video creators finished (did?) their research before publishing their videos.

AWESOME VEHICLE and CREWS that Operate them!👍

Made by Thales, a French company and pronounced Tarl. They also make the UK's most successful missiles like N-LAW.

Hello! Is there anybody in there? My 2008 Holden Rodeo Spacecab ute is far superior.....and nobody can tell me any difference cause I upgraded the sound system and its so loud "their lips move, but I can't hear what they're sayin. Because I have become comfortably numb"...due to the fact that she does vibrate a bit.....think it needs a wheel balance 😎

Its not named after a snake. And by the way they have been all destroyed in ukraine. Russians actually have them displayed. So not that impressive as used by the ukranians for what they are not designed for.

Going green on the battle field, questionable. The British tried multi fuel engines in the tanks. Those tanks readiness status was very questionable at best.

Bushmaster in Ukraine why wasn’t the destroyed ones shown . What reality equals truth

go oz oz oz help keep the world in calm

Sounded more like an advertisement then a video explaining how shocked the Russians are. wouldn't surprise me if Putin never heard of the Bushmaster.

AUSTRALIA FTW! SLAVA UKRAINI!

It's meant for transportation, lightly armoured and lightly armed. Any anti-tank weapon can blow it back to it recycling components.

Are there any information on how many have been sent and how many are still in active duty?

Really like the concept, how do you invest?

i thought our most lethal vehicle was the M1A2 SEP 3

They left here painted as Ambulances.

I want one

Its not named after a snake. Im pretty sure you’ve confused that from the other vehicle australia could’ve chosen but they didnt and chose the bushmaster instead. Its also not the most lethal, it’s actually the opposite. Its the safest vehicle as it protects its passengers by everything very well. Its for safely carrying passengers not killing people with mounted weapons.

Its an ok shuttle bus. Design is a a mp 44 with a caterpillar engine and zf tranny. Ukraine loves them coz they get them free. However the Ukrainian prefer to spend their cash for Turkish kirpi

Beast mode

Was the Thales part at the start a sponsor?

It's a terrific truck, I believe the Ukrainians are using them as a sort of fast evac ambulance and makeshift anti air platform at the moment. At least one has been destroyed so far though

Bushmaster the best all rounder go for it

Do Aus get the bushmaser vehicle back after war is over.

Is known as the bush master I've been inside these and the air breaks sound like sneezing and it's really claustrophobic we had multiple cadets in the one and I got trapped in the driver's seat cause 5 cadets including myself were in there there's 3 gunners seats

Yeh, I'll get one. I need something to get to the shops.

just the fact that you said that australia has only made the sentinel before this made me go straight to the comments, get your fucking facts straight, they have designed and produced a total of 3 vehicles, the sentinel as you mentioned, now the bushmaster, but also the Thunderbolt (cruiser III)

The details of the electric varient mentions a "Nanometre" torque. I think this is meant to be "Newton-metre" .

Isn’t Thales a french name pronounced Tal-es with the s on the end is sounded?

We have the most venomous terrestrial snake on Earth, along with a number of the runner-ups and venomous sea snakes. I appreciate the effort but there was quite a bit wrong with this video and misinterpreting the name of the vehicle is a pretty fundamental flaw. Why would Australia name an armoured vehicle after some foreign snake? 🐍

Thales is pronounced “Ta-Less”

„Most lethal armored vehicle“ what a bs! By no doubt the vehicle performs excellent but it is „protective“ not „most lethal“!

It's not named after the snake! If it was it would be named after an Australian snake. We've got heaps. Eg. Eastern Brown, Taipan...

FYI Vlad, this is what Australians call a Shirtfront.

Lease how did it shock Russia tell me

What I found most interesting is that the original Ozzie defense company has become wholly owned by Oshkosh Corporation, out of the U.S... Oshkosh, b'gosh...!

Awesome war vehicle. I hope the Philippines Soldier can buy that to avoid heavy casualty of Soldiers during the ambush of terrorist group NPA and muslim rebels.

It's called Bush master because its designed to operate in the bush as master in its role, it's a bush master. Snakes have nothing to do with the name, especially a south African snake.

👍💪🪃 Bushmaster💫

Thales = Tails not fails

The Russians blew them to bits