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(Thanks to Engadget for the heads-up.)

The Smart Truck III was unveiled at Singapore’s Global Security Asia 2005 exhibition this week and it is indeed sleek, black and massive.

Apart from the array of flat-screen monitors and multiple cameras (including a periscope cam), you can get quite trigger-happy with the .50 calibre machine guns and anti-RPG (rocket propelled grenade) missiles activated via any one of the multi-coloured control buttons in the cockpit.

And if that wasn’t enough, one touch of a button can activate one of 16 missiles on the truck’s sides to shoot down any incoming RPGs in mid-air.

At a tad over USD 65,000 for the basic truck alone, you’ll have to fork out an extra few hundred bucks to load up this beast with enough firepower to start the fourth-world war.

Just one snag, since we’ll be paying R5 per litre of fuel, and I’m assuming this truck’s fuel consumption is measured in litres per kilometre, instead of kilometres per litre, you’ll probably need to rob a few banks to keep this beast going. At least you’ll be quite comfy in the air-conditioned, leather-clad cockpit, while you blast through the walls of your local bank branch.

(Not that I condone such an action of course!)