Kantanka Automobile, a

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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 engine block. 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 knock-down kits 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

four-wheel drive Four-wheel drive, also called 4×4 ("four by four") or 4WD, refers to a two-axled vehicle drivetrain capable of providing torque to all of its wheels simultaneously. It may be full-time or on-demand, and is typically linked via a transfer case ...

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

Lion *

Kantanka Onantefo The Foday Explorer is a series of compact and midsize SUVs manufactured since 2002 by Foday. The Explorer SUV series was developed based on the platform of the Mitsubishi Pajero with designs heavily inspired by the first and second-generation Isuz ...

4x4 pickup/SUV – Kantanka Onantefo SUV

Explorer 6 * Otumfuo SUV. *

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small SUV – Brilliance Jinbei S30 *

Kantanka Amoanimaa The Lifan 530 is a four-door subcompact sedan produced by the Chinese manufacturer Lifan. Overview The Lifan 530 subcompact car debuted as a concept called the Lifan 520 at the 2011 Guangzhou Auto Show in November 2011. Later the Lifan 530 sub ...

Kantanka Mensah The Lifan 820 is a four-door mid-size sedan produced by the Lifan Motors division of Lifan Group. Overview Launched in 2014 at the Beijing Auto Show, the Lifan 820 was available to the Chinese market in 2015 with a price range of 81,800 yuan t ...

* 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

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, which is located in

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