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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:28:48 PM EDT
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USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:30:44 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Inneedofhelp]
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There was a book called Civil war II or something like that I read parts of years ago. Among other things, one thing it predicted, was that as the US deteriorated into feuding groups based on race or whatever, was the increasing militarization of the police to deal with the ever rising tide of chaos. Well, here we are.
Stuff my kick off in the Balkans again. Things are balkanized here, maybe they'll kick off here soon. |
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:32:05 PM EDT
[Last Edit: boomhower]
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Will come in handy to confiscate grandads 22 and your family Bible.
I kinda want it though. |
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KS, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:32:19 PM EDT
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Wonder how it would do against 50 bmg api.
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MP, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:33:35 PM EDT
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About two fifty in paintballs gunna make er tough to see.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:33:48 PM EDT
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How cool!
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:34:49 PM EDT
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Yep, they were seen on trailers headed towards Richmond on Lobby Day. I'm certain they were staged somewhere and ready to tread.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:35:34 PM EDT
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I wonder what a Molotov cocktail would do to it?
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:35:51 PM EDT
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How’s the basement situation in Virginia?
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:36:18 PM EDT
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I love having my own government planning and preparing to kill me.
and I pay for it. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:36:31 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:36:59 PM EDT
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Definitely one of those things that's initially more disturbing than comforting in my mind. However in all fairness if say there was, God forbid, a massive snackbar event, I'd probably be the first to be thankful they were prepared in advance.
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GA, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:37:54 PM EDT
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Somewhere a D8 is snickering.
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MS, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:37:56 PM EDT
[#13]
Is the pod on a forklift. Would be a cool mobile deer stand.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:40:38 PM EDT
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USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:41:54 PM EDT
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I dont know how the driver could see where he is going without a camera system.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:42:58 PM EDT
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I’ve noticed some of the cities get nicer shit lately. Took my son to a fair in Chesapeake and the PD had an area set up to show off the mobile command center and next to it was a brand new Bearcat plus some of the swat team’s rifles in the back of it. Bearcats and Vortex Razors on JP Enterprises rifles and cobbled together suppressed SBRs.
Side note, tried to take a picture of the rifles for a discussion on here and Mr swat man got pissy about me trying to take a picture. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:42:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By farmer-dave: Wonder how it would do against 50 bmg api. This is the sort of question that has popped into my head as well. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:43:09 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ScoutH57]
[#18]
Killdozer was way bigger and cooler
Rooks are just armored bobcats with rams and a variety of tools you can attach. The one in the OP picture is a mobile armored barricade/delivery platform so you can safely get into like second stories. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:43:35 PM EDT
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Yeah last year police in Houston used it to destroy some innocent guy's house when a scumbag holed up in it instead of just waiting him out.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/08/19/daring-standoff-crane-lifts-armed-officers-to-2nd-story-of-home-forcing-suspect-wanted-in-deputys-shooting-to-give-up/ 
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:43:56 PM EDT
[#20]
The Rook has been around for a decade or more
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:46:48 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By farmer-dave: Wonder how it would do against Dream big. 
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PA, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:47:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By NotJackMiller: Yeah last year police in Houston used it to destroy some innocent guy's house when a scumbag holed up in it instead of just waiting him out. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/08/19/daring-standoff-crane-lifts-armed-officers-to-2nd-story-of-home-forcing-suspect-wanted-in-deputys-shooting-to-give-up/ https://res.cloudinary.com/graham-media-group/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_scale,w_900/v1/media/gmg/UEETIBMGJBC6PMXMXWONBK5EAQ.jpg?_a=AJFJtWIA Departments have done that to several places. AFAIK the owner was screwed and left to try to find way to repair their property. These days I wouldnt be surprised if code enforcement follow up and cite them immediately starting the process to eventually try to get a slice of the property by force selling it. |
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GA, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:50:12 PM EDT
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Looks like a big smoker.
Anybody got a match? |
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USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:51:09 PM EDT
[#24]
Originally Posted By bulldog1967: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/6755/IMG_8712-3171795.jpg To protect and serve. Are they going to paint "RESCUE VEHICLE" on the side of it, to pretend it's for pulling Timmy out of the well? |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:54:24 PM EDT
[#25]
I mean, let someone take your wife or kids hostage and you'd be crying like a little girl begging them to send that thing in.🤷♂️ |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:00:13 PM EDT
[#26]
Even more militarization of the TBL.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:03:07 PM EDT
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:04:41 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SAE]
[#28]
Hey look, it's my dick and half of one ass cheek!
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:06:01 PM EDT
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Active shooters you say? Is Virginia taking a page from Uvalde? Just sit back and wait- ignore the screaming children- until the killdozer arrives? To do what? Get there an hour late to the game and knock down the wall of the school to access the room?
No. This is here for some tyranny enforcement. Don't be fooled. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:06:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By farmer-dave: Wonder how it would do against 50 bmg api. It would do very poorly. That thing is using 1/4" AR500 armor plate. For example WW2 30-06 AP will zip right through 3/4" thick AR500 armor plate. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:10:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Butternut: Definitely one of those things that's initially more disturbing than comforting in my mind. However in all fairness if say there was, God forbid, a massive snackbar event, I'd probably be the first to be thankful they were prepared in advance. Except i don't believe they were designed for that. More than likely for keeping us in check. Roy |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:10:38 PM EDT
[Last Edit: SAE]
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:12:58 PM EDT
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USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:17:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By realwar: It would do very poorly. That thing is using 1/4" AR500 armor plate. For example WW2 30-06 AP will zip right through 3/4" thick AR500 armor plate. Most people won't be shooting at this thing with .30-06AP and a Garand or any rifle chambered in .30-06, most won't have anything in .50BMG. There is some slight chance that yes, in this particular area, they could run into someone with something like that, but the odds are low. |
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USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:17:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JeepersCreepers: I mean, let someone take your wife or kids hostage and you'd be crying like a little girl begging them to send that thing in.🤷♂️ I'm sure that smashing that thing through a wall like the Kool-Aid man will go well for the hostages. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:24:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Inneedofhelp: Most people won't be shooting at this thing with .30-06AP and a Garand or any rifle chambered in .30-06, most won't have anything in .50BMG. There is some slight chance that yes, in this particular area, they could run into someone with something like that, but the odds are low. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Inneedofhelp: Originally Posted By realwar: It would do very poorly. That thing is using 1/4" AR500 armor plate. For example WW2 30-06 AP will zip right through 3/4" thick AR500 armor plate. Most people won't be shooting at this thing with .30-06AP and a Garand or any rifle chambered in .30-06, most won't have anything in .50BMG. There is some slight chance that yes, in this particular area, they could run into someone with something like that, but the odds are low. Depends on who it's meant for I guess. You don't have any .30 black tips or API? |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:46:06 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Pallas]
[#37]
Are those bobcats? We have one of those.
They have used it a few times, mostly barricade situations as cover and once when a guy had some broad at gunpoint in a car. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:47:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Curmudgeon762: I wonder what a Molotov cocktail would do to it? A BMP doesn’t like ignited gas on its outside… |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:50:59 PM EDT
[#39]
Fairfax county swat has had those for years.
Back in the 90s Ffx had a tank w/ no turret iirc, and they released a picture of a drone years before they were common for the public/LE.  |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:51:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By boomhower: Will come in handy to confiscate grandads 22 and your family Bible. I kinda want it though. |
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OH, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:52:37 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RRA_223]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By farmer-dave: Wonder how it would do against 50 bmg api. I'll bet it does pretty well. But they have to bring it in by truck first. And there would be a lot of collateral damage for anyone stacked up near it. ETA nice to see AP will punch through. |
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USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:56:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JeepersCreepers: I mean, let someone take your wife or kids hostage and you'd be crying like a little girl begging them to send that thing in.🤷♂️ Who is gonna let someone take their wife and kids? Given the current human trafficking industry, you’re very misguided in how this will be used. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:59:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MaverickH1: Yep, they were seen on trailers headed towards Richmond on Lobby Day. I'm certain they were staged somewhere and ready to tread. Corner of 5th and Broad or thereabouts if I recall. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:00:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Curmudgeon762: I wonder what a Molotov cocktail would do to it? Gasoline and styrofoam and diesel when setting bonfires Oh it sticks Don't ask me how I know 
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:03:49 PM EDT
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It’s just for show. There’s no one smart enough in the VSP to drive a bulldozer.
Large, lumbering slow moving vehicle. All for show. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:08:49 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Bizzarolibe]
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JeepersCreepers: I mean, let someone take your wife or kids hostage and you'd be crying like a little girl begging them to send that thing in.🤷♂️ Nah, not really. I’m good. The chance of my wife and kids being taken hostage are exceedingly, mathematically astoundingly low compared with the chance that my own government will oppress the fuck out of me, which is a 100% chance considering that it’s, you know, already doing that  Nah man. Fuck that noise. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:14:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Millennial: Dream big. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Millennial: Originally Posted By farmer-dave: Wonder how it would do against Dream big. Or a drone with gas filled beer bottles, rigged up with an electrical system to set off the storm matches right before release...for the average joe.
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LA, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:15:28 PM EDT
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They gotta come out sometime
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:19:15 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Drsalee]
[#49]
That thing frightens me more than it gives me comfort, considering who .gov considers the bad guys.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 2:20:11 PM EDT
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Back two years ago, town I went to school at, the police wanted a Rook and it got shoot down. So last year the police chief had the Sheriff try to get the county to buy one. That got shot down quick, no one in the county saw a reason for especially with the Sheriff's department has a Bearcat that never gets used, except for photo shoots by the deputies. Local governments should just admit they want to waste money and have something to use to strip people of their rights.
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