Built for extreme situations, these vehicles are anything but lightweight.
, but in many cases breach walls and rapidly deploy heavily armed cops into dangerous situations. There are many companies around the world that specialize in up-armoring standard production vehicles, and others who mass-produce specialized tactical law enforcement vehicles from the ground up. In the U.S., many SWAT vehicles are
. In any case, the vehicles that various police departments around the world choose for this specialized task are interesting in and of themselves.The BearCat series is the standard for SWAT vehicles in the U.S., and is a two- orbuilt from the ground up by Lenco.
In Japan, armored law enforcement vehicles are often specialized more towards crowd control than direct assaults. These crowd control buses are built on Fuso Canter truck chassis, and are used as rolling barricades to manage crowds, in addition to supporting and transporting police.The Sentry is built with an eye towards operating in intense climates, both hot and cold.
a vehicle with such intensive and niche maintenance requirements is almost as interesting of a story as all the troops' lives these Cougars saved in their intended purpose.Of all the most cost- and time-efficient ways to build a tactical van or SWAT truck, building on an off-the-shelf Stripped Chassis like Ford's
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