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The term technical describing such a vehicle originated in Somalia in the early 1990s.

Barred from bringing in private security, non-governmental organizations hired local gunmen to protect their personnel, using money defined as " technical assistance grants ".

Eventually the term broadened to include any vehicle carrying armed men.

Technicals have also been referred to as battlewagons, gunwagons, or gunships.