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based automotive company that designs, manufactures, assembles and sells luxury cars, was established in 1994 by entrepreneur and preacher Kwadwo Safo Kantanka and incorporated as a limited liability into the manufacturing of automotive components and their combination with other parts outsourced from component suppliers to form a complete built unit. In 1998, the first complete built unit (CBU) was manufactured using over 75% of local components, locally manufactured including the

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. By 2006, the first SUV, the Onantefo, was manufactured. Kwadwo Safo Kantanka is also the founder of the Kristo Asafo (Christ Reformed) Church, a seventh-day movement in Ghana. Kantanka vehicles are assembled in Ghana from

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s supplied by a Chinese firm, possibly

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via Chongqing Big Science & Technology.

Models

The Kantanka range of cars includes both saloon and

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vehicles. * Kantanka Nkunimdie SUV. * Kantanka Omama Pickup –

Lion * Kantanka Onantefo 4x4 pickup/SUV – Kantanka Onantefo SUV

Explorer 6 * Otumfuo SUV. * Kantanka K71 small SUV –

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* Kantanka Amoanimaa * Kantanka Mensah * Kantanka Omama luxury 4x4

Military hardware

Kantanka is alleged to have manufactured military hardware such as armored personnel carriers, tanks, and helicopters. However these devices appear to use fireworks as their primary weapons system. They have also developed combat exoskeletons, which appear to function more as costume props than true weapons systems. Kantanka launched an armored vehicle with rangefinder in the 2018 Annual Technology Show at Apostle Safo School of Arts and Sciences. The Kantanka range of military vehicles includes both air and ground vehicles, as well as infantry equipment. * All images and specifications are very heavily guarded by the Ghana Armed Forces, and are "subject to scrutiny" * 50mm main guns, 30mm diameter "direct fire rockets" & 25mm rotary machine guns appear common mountings. * Larger Missiles appear to be of (PRC?) CCCP design, perhaps with simple logic (unknown spec)

Models

Cited/Source: Accra Military Expo, Video - YouTube, title
Strange Advanced Weapons of Ghana
Poster – jmantime * Kantanka-ABV, Armored Bullion Vehicle, slated for use as police SUV (Bullet Proof Glass and Armor Plating, based off Kantanka Onantefo) * Kantanka-KTK2, ''Helicopter'' (Mockup only shown) - Single Crew, Missile Attack Helicopter * Kantanka-KTK Car, 4-Wheeled Light Weapons Platform - Crewless, ''DRONE'' * Kantanka-SPG, ''4-Wheeled Fighting Artillery'', - 3 crew/3 passengers, Main gun and side mounted rocket tubes * Kantanka-ACCRA APC, ''8-Wheeled Fighting Armored Personnel Carrier'', (4 meters tall!), 4 crew, 20 passengers * Kantanka-GLITZ Walker, Bipedal Mechanized ''"Chicken Walker"'' Platform "AKA: Mech", Single Crew, Walking Tank * Kantanka-Infantry Exoskeleton, Passively Powered via ''"Gear weight and Hydraulics"'' (Claimed), "Threat Reduction, Non-Environmental"

Gallery

File:Kantanka-Otumfo.jpg, Kantanka Otumfo SUV assembled in Gomoa Mpota, which is located in Central Region, Ghana

References

External links

Official websiteNews website
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