Mass purchase of "black armored cars" in the USA
US media report that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the US 2011 year placed contracts for the purchase of approximately 2500 wheeled armored vehicles of MRP type Argus, manufactured by Protected Vehicles Incorporated (PVI). The total cost of the procurement program is estimated to exceed $ 1 billion. Argus armored vehicles with a wheel formula 4х4 are intended to equip a number of structures subordinate to DHS, the FEMA emergency agency; coast guard; customs and border protection; and first of all, the special units HSI-SRT (Homeland Security Investigations - Special Response Teams) and HSI-RRT (Homeland Security Investigations - Rapid Response Teams), which are rapidly growing in recent years, are subordinated to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement - ICE). In fact, at present, the HSI-SRT special forces, created throughout the country, have so far been absent in the United States by the federal police of central subordination, de facto turning into a kind of analogue of the French gendarmerie.
Armored vehicle Protected Vehicles Incorporated Argus from the HSI-SRT division of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service of the US Department of Homeland Security. The SAC / TA designation may indicate that the unit is deployed in Tampa, Fla.
In the past few months, the first Argus armored vehicles DHS received have been spotted in transit to their destinations. As a rule, these vehicles (intended for HSI-SRT units) are black (less often "desert") and bear DHS emblems and a whole set of inscriptions - 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration & Customs Enforcement', 'POLICE / RESCUE' and ' Special Response Team '. At the same time, it is believed that the cars of other divisions and DHS agencies may also have similar inscriptions, that is, they are actually disguised as HSI-SRT cars.
Protected Vehicles Incorporated (PVI), established in 2005 and operating in North Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most “closed” armored vehicles companies, and apparently works closely with US intelligence agencies and agencies. . The founder and president of PVI is Garth Barrett, one of the South African inventors and pioneers of machines with enhanced mine and anti-fuse protection, who moved from South Africa to the United States in 1993 year. Prior to the founding of PVI, Barrett was the chief designer at another well-known US company, Force Protection Inc., where Cougar and Buffalo armored vehicles were created under his leadership.
The Argus armored vehicle was built on the basis of the Golan armored vehicle developed by the Israeli company Rafael in the mid-2000 of the PVI, which had previously been pushed into the US market. In the 2005 year, at the very beginning of the American boom of purchasing MRAP-class vehicles, the US Marine Corps purchased 60 Golan armored vehicles built by PVI, but apparently remained unsatisfied with them, since no further purchases followed. The Argus armored vehicle, which is a further development of the Golan, has a fighting mass of up to 46 thousand pounds (21 tons - perhaps the figure is too high) and is equipped with a Cummins QSL8.9 diesel engine with 350 horsepower. and an Allison 3200SP Gen IV automatic transmission. The machine has a high level of ballistic and mine protection, although its specific levels are not reported.
The American patriotic public is sounding the alarm over the so-called DHS purchase of MRAP-class armored vehicles, the need for which in the US looks obscure. It should be noted that a number of armored vehicles already consists of equipment of the DHS, including MRAP-type machines of the Oshkosh Alpha type.
Armored vehicle Protected Vehicles Incorporated Argus from the HSI-SRT division of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service of the US Department of Homeland Security. The SAC / TA designation may indicate that the unit is deployed in Tampa, Fla.
In the past few months, the first Argus armored vehicles DHS received have been spotted in transit to their destinations. As a rule, these vehicles (intended for HSI-SRT units) are black (less often "desert") and bear DHS emblems and a whole set of inscriptions - 'Homeland Security', 'Immigration & Customs Enforcement', 'POLICE / RESCUE' and ' Special Response Team '. At the same time, it is believed that the cars of other divisions and DHS agencies may also have similar inscriptions, that is, they are actually disguised as HSI-SRT cars.
Protected Vehicles Incorporated (PVI), established in 2005 and operating in North Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most “closed” armored vehicles companies, and apparently works closely with US intelligence agencies and agencies. . The founder and president of PVI is Garth Barrett, one of the South African inventors and pioneers of machines with enhanced mine and anti-fuse protection, who moved from South Africa to the United States in 1993 year. Prior to the founding of PVI, Barrett was the chief designer at another well-known US company, Force Protection Inc., where Cougar and Buffalo armored vehicles were created under his leadership.
The Argus armored vehicle was built on the basis of the Golan armored vehicle developed by the Israeli company Rafael in the mid-2000 of the PVI, which had previously been pushed into the US market. In the 2005 year, at the very beginning of the American boom of purchasing MRAP-class vehicles, the US Marine Corps purchased 60 Golan armored vehicles built by PVI, but apparently remained unsatisfied with them, since no further purchases followed. The Argus armored vehicle, which is a further development of the Golan, has a fighting mass of up to 46 thousand pounds (21 tons - perhaps the figure is too high) and is equipped with a Cummins QSL8.9 diesel engine with 350 horsepower. and an Allison 3200SP Gen IV automatic transmission. The machine has a high level of ballistic and mine protection, although its specific levels are not reported.
The American patriotic public is sounding the alarm over the so-called DHS purchase of MRAP-class armored vehicles, the need for which in the US looks obscure. It should be noted that a number of armored vehicles already consists of equipment of the DHS, including MRAP-type machines of the Oshkosh Alpha type.
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