Fuel Truck

"Full tank of military-grade fuel included"

- Merchant of Menace store caption

The Fuel Truck is a Chinese tanker truck featured in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.

Overview
"Don't be caught off guard on fuel when you're planning your next assault. We'll airlift a fuel truck from the Chinese motor pool to your location. They make great car bombs, too!"

- Merchant of Menace store description

The Fuel Truck is used by the Chinese military to transport and store fuel. These trucks can be found at Pyongyang Airport and at Nampo during the contract 'A Hot Time in Nampo' or bought from the Merchant of Menace for $16,000-$22,400 after collecting 10 National Treasures. The Fuel Truck looks like a Chinese Cargo Truck with a large fuel tank on the back.

Tactics
The Fuel Truck can be transformed into a make shift bomb truck. Place a C4 satchel on a fuel truck and drive the truck into an enemy vehicle or building and jump out before hitting it and then detonate the C4. The combination of C4 and fuel will damage or destroy almost any building or vehicle within the blast radius.

Destroying a Fuel Truck ordered from the shop during 'A Hot Time in Nampo' still counts for the objective of the contract. This means that you can order some trucks in a safe place and destroy them to avoid faction loss with the Chinese.

Real Life
The Fuel Truck strongly resembles the 2-door variant of the Dongfeng EQ2102 used by the People's Liberation Army. Differences between the Cargo Truck and EQ2102 include a single windshield (not parted), a slightly different shaped window on the door, and square headlights rather than circular. Unlike the regular tanker variant of the EQ2102, the Fuel Truck is simply a flatbed truck with a fuel tank on it.

Related Pages

 * PLA ground vehicles in Playground of Destruction
 * Cargo Truck (China)
 * SMC 2100
 * Armored Tiger Tanker - Mercenaries 2: World in Flames equivalent