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The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare The subject of this article appeared in Call of Duty: Black Ops III. The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II The subject of this article appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III The subject of this article appeared in Zombies mode

A Technical is an improvised fighting vehicle featured in all of the Modern Warfare installments of the Call of Duty series. It is usually a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun, usually an M2 Browning Machine Gun. Similar vehicles appear in Call of Duty: Black Ops, but are not pick-up trucks, and they instead have the Russian DShk mounted machine gun. The DShK appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as well, but the M2 accompanies it. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it is drivable in the Ground War mode and Spec Ops, but it doesn't have an Machine Gun in the back.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare[]

Technicals are seen in "Charlie Don't Surf" and"Death From Above" in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. They closely resemble older models of a white Toyota Hilux or an early 2000 extended cab model of a Chevrolet S-10. They are 4WD pickups, each with a mounted and unusable 50cal. MG on them. A destroyed technical is also seen in the back alley of the multiplayer map Crash. In "Charlie Don't Surf", the car approaches after the player makes it to the road.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2[]

There are at least two technicals seen in "Team Player". The Militia has three technicals in "The Hornet's Nest" with a Browning M2, in two cases the gun is usable. Shadow Company in "The Enemy of My Enemy" have their own version of a technical, apparently based on the DillonAero Tactical Vehicle, a black "Vioxy DX5" (in-game pseudonym for Chevy Suburban) SUV with a mounted Gatling minigun concealed by a hatch on the roof, though these are not, by definition, technicals. Technicals that are used by the OpFor can be seen in "Endgame".

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3[]

Campaign[]

They appear in the mission "Back on the Grid", "Return To Sender" and "Down the Rabbit Hole", and are used by the Africa Militia and Ultranationalists. Technicals may come with some paintjobs on the side of the bed and on the hood.

Special Ops[]

Enemy technicals appear in certain Mission Mode operations, specifically "Smack Town", in which the player must destroy two jeeps fitted with mounted machine guns. They are also encountered in "Toxic Paradise", "Server Crash", "Flood the Market" and "Fire Mission". "Hostage Taker" seems to have some kind of technical with a turret on it but this is never used.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II[]

The Technical appears in several missions. Players can use the M2 Browning Machine Gun if the vehicle is intact, except the one found in the slums in the mission "Suffer With Me".

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare[]

The Technical reappears in the mission "Traffic", used by the KVA. This time, it sports a cleaner, white appearance and resembles more of a dedicated military vehicle rather than an improvised one.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III[]

Technicals can be seen throughout the Call of Duty: Black Ops III campaign. They have mounted machine guns on them generally, which the player can use. In the mission "Vengeance", the 54 Immortals use a variant that mounts an automatic grenade launcher instead.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4[]

Non-playable Technicals can be found on the Multiplayer map Madagascar.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare[]

The Technical appears as a pickup truck in the Ground War and Spec Ops mode without a mounted machine gun in the back.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II[]

The technical appears in the Strike intermission cutscene alongside the deal site and is used by Shadow Company and the Russian Ground Forces.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III[]

"This open-bed, civilian pickup truck has been improvised with a mounted machine gun."
— In-game description

The Technical returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III as the NSTV. It is available for use in Multiplayer in the Ground War and Invasion modes.

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare[]

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Call of Duty: Black Ops II[]

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare[]

Call of Duty: Black Ops III[]

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare[]

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War[]

Trivia[]

  • Oddly, if the player attempts to use an RPG-7 on the Technical in "Charlie Don't Surf", the rocket will always curve away from it and miss.
  • The M2 machine gun on the back of the Technical in "The Hornet's Nest" can be used; However it shows the use icon for the M249 SAW, since there is no use icon for the M2.
  • In Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, if the player kills the driver of the technical, the vehicle will immediately burst into flames.
  • On a few Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 maps, such as Carnival, destroyed Technicals can be found outside the map, used as scenery.
  • In "The Hornet's Nest", the player can aim the M2 machine gun at the roof of the cab on the technical.
  • In "Second Sun", one can find destroyed technicals (complete with machine gun) littering the streets of Washington D.C..
  • The suburban technical used by Shadow Company has the letters "COD" branded on the dashboard, a sticker proclaiming the vehicle to be United States government property, and a rolled up newspaper with the headline "Central Park Pond Improvement".
  • On the map Firing Range in Call of Duty: Black Ops, there is a technical hanging by ropes from the ceiling, in one of the garages.
  • In the Multiplayer Open Beta of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, the Technical was called "HMG Technical".
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