Walid (armored personnel carrier)

[2] The Walid marked one of Egypt's first attempts at reproducing or adapting Soviet military hardware using Western technology.

[3] It was designed by civilian engineers at a Nasr Automotive facility in Helwan[4] and modeled directly on the BTR-40, an early postwar Soviet wheeled APC.

[3] The Walid combined the hull designs of the BTR-40 and its larger successor, the BTR-152, with the chassis of a 4X4 Magirus utility truck manufactured under license by the Kader Factory.

Command Vehicle - basic APC but with extra radios Self-propelled wheeled multiple-rocket launcher manned by a crew of two and armed with either six or twelve 80 mm rocket-launcher tubes (depending upon model).

[7] In the 1960s and 1970s, the Walid was used several times in war movies shot in the Egyptian desert, appearing as a fake armored truck of the Afrika Korps with a German Balkenkreuz painted on the side.