Wasn’t these basically donated because the military had too many? I understand them completely. The SWAT units needs armored trucks, even in Sweden they have Sandcats. The options were these extremely cheap former military MRAPs that are bulletproof, or buy armored civilian vehicles which costs multiple hundreds of thousands.
I’d bark up the tree of military spending rather than the police accepting hand-me-downs.
There is a lot to dissect about this whole topic but in short, yeah.
Bullets go through normal cars fairly easily. This armored vehicle isn’t equipped with a LMG on top, it’s intended to get a swat team close to a situation without risking everyone getting picked off by small arms fire.
Wasn’t these basically donated because the military had too many? I understand them completely. The SWAT units needs armored trucks, even in Sweden they have Sandcats. The options were these extremely cheap former military MRAPs that are bulletproof, or buy armored civilian vehicles which costs multiple hundreds of thousands.
I’d bark up the tree of military spending rather than the police accepting hand-me-downs.
If I remember correctly pretty much every small town in the US has a ridiculous SWAT team like this. I think this kind of equipment is rare in Sweden.
There is a lot to dissect about this whole topic but in short, yeah.
Bullets go through normal cars fairly easily. This armored vehicle isn’t equipped with a LMG on top, it’s intended to get a swat team close to a situation without risking everyone getting picked off by small arms fire.