Posted: 2/4/2008 5:14:19 AM EDT
I was doing my daily internetz surfing and came upon this: I'd never seen anything like it and thought I'd share. Anyone else got any interesting armor in current use with some sort of forces around the world? This stuff looks pretty intense and I'd probably think twice before throwing a rock or bottle at these guys. What with them probably concealing plasma rifles or something. |
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It's amazing how much of that stuff the less developed nations have to have. Every time the natives get restless in most parts of the world the streets fill up with Robocops in full riot gear, water cannon trucks, noisy flash-bang trucks, acres of riot shields, tons of helmets and body armor, miles of riot batons, and a whole tire dump of rubber bullets. They have it because they need it. Of course, in places like Burma, they just shoot you with real bullets and be done with it. The riots in Japan are fun to watch for the careful choreography of the rioters, but everywhere else the rocks and Molotavs are flying. Makes you wonder where they store all that stuff and how they get it distributed when they need it. |
Here's the Wiki page on the Japanese embassy hostage crisis. I didn't quite recall it correctly, the operation was carried out by Peruvian military and not National Police and the terrorists were a splinter group of Shining Path, not Shining Path themselves. Still was badass and I remember the news footage of Fujimori dancing and high-fiving the commandos in the courtyard of the compound afterwards.
And people think GW Bush is too gung-ho. 
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They don't play around down in there - Chile, Peru, Argentina. I remember the Carabineros de Chile (the Chilean National Police basically) are considered to be the most elite law enforcement group on the continent. Very professional, almost like the Mounties in Canada. THey kill people who try to bribe them    
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They should. That stuff looks a lot like black roller hockey gear.
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