Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playYou spend a lot of time waiting in the army. The quake-stricken Kaikoura residents are glad the army are such patient professionals. "We could just truck through but we have to wait for the green light," one driver said. But the NZDF's new MAN MHOV (medium and heavy operation vehicles) - powerful, high-tech eight-wheeled machines - chew it up. Steered by the skilled combat drivers, they streak over cracked roads which are filled with shingle in band-aid repairs.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 24, 2016 07:00 UTC