Or you could just buy some half inch AR500 plate that will stop a .50 BMG round.

“Of course, treating the mentally ill isn’t anywhere near as sexy as more guns for the sheriff and more gun laws.”

Yes, this here.

Police then used a robot to ensure the driver was dead and to inspect the vehicle

treat the symptom not the disease? no number of gun laws will make people sane. Conversely, the more people you make criminals with gun laws, the more this will happen - that’s just a numbers thing.

Depends on the grade of the armor and the ballistics of that particular rifle/round.

Also depends if there is armor where the round is hitting. Ceramic plates make for terrible goggles. Hehe.

From the looks of it... he would have obtained armor-on-wheels somehow/eventually.

Sure, you could have bought the van, but he might have ended up with a BDRM-2 instead.

Now I feel as though I could have had an effect on this whole situation. That van was on my watch list. I just thought it could be a kitschy tow rig for LeMons duty. It was just a bit too pricey for my taste for that purpose. I’m just thinking now that if I had bought it, this assmunch wouldn’t have had the sense of…

I’ve been saying this for a while but this whole “militarization” of the police was our own doing. Most people seem to forget the outcry after that California bank robbery where the two guys where decked out in body armor and enough weapons that make any call of duty character look like a joke. Everyone back then was…

I’m seeing a lot of people on other discussions on this topic wondering how somebody got ahold of vehicle armor. You don’t need some certified commercial grade stuff, you just call up your local steel yard and they’ll deliver it to your home.

At this point of time we don’t.

Believe me, it gives me no pleasure to say this: the operating “culture” has been pretty bad in Hungary. Firstly, there are very few good mechanics. Wages are very low, and if they get a job in the private sector (they don’t even have to go far - Mercedes-Benz has a factory not far from Hungary’s only fighter base,…

The seat used on the Gripen is a Martin-Baker Mk 10L, a variation of the extremely successful ejector seat introduced in the 1970s. Don’t forget, whether the seat operates as it should also depends on the level of maintenance its subjected to. If a seat is not maintained correctly, than the sequence will not complete…

Well, it’s made by Saab...

This is really off topic, but I couldn’t find another to contact you (I don’t have a Twitter)...I started doing some reading about the Thunderbirds and came across the Four Horsemen, C-130A Demonstration Team. I googled the demonstration team and found this gem of a video:

For suppression of enemy air defenses yes, but for hard kills (DEAD) the WCMD has been very popular. Since SAM, or even just the radar site component of it, are fairly soft targets, a cluster bomb lobbed at it will put it out of commission and probably kill anyone working at the location unless they are in a highly…

If anyone needs a regime change, it’s Saudi Arabia, John McCain’s ally.

thanks for asking...it’s a language nitpick, but it actually has international significance...let me explain:

And stop calling RC hobby aircraft drones news readers.

It costs the military $6000 for a wrench we can get for $5 so this is a drop in the bucket.

I thought about that, but then I was pretty certain that satellites are multi-million dollar pieces of tech. Maybe they're just adding in the control unit used in the field and perhaps some R&D, though even R&D is way up there.