A technical is an improvised fighting vehicle built from a civilianmotor vehicle. It is typicallya light (pickup) truckwith a tripod-mounted heavy machine gun on the back. However, they can be built on other types of civilian vehicles (e.g. an SUV, or a medium flatbed truck etc.) and there are many other types of weapons that could bemountedon-board. Technicals are mostly associated with irregular and paramilitary forces.  The etymology of the term is uncertain, but it is believed to have originated in Somalia in the 1980s or '90s.
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