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PARIS - The U.S. government is buying armored Toyota HiLux pickup trucks for use in Iraq and Afghanistan because they stand out less than the military's hulking Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, said officials with BAE Systems, who add the armor.
The BAE-built Toyota HiLux provides ballistic protection while blending in. ( Kris Osborn / Staff)
"It fits in very well because it is an indigenous vehicle, so if you armor it and you drive around in an armored HiLux, you look like every other HiLux on the street," said Darren Flynn, a BAE Systems program manager. "If I am in a military vehicle, they [potential enemies] know I am military. If I am in a commercial vehicle, they do not."
BAE's HiLux is nearly the same height, width and transmission as its commercial counterpart, but it has ballistic steel and glass around the cabin to stop small-arms fire, Flynn said.
The U.S. government has bought thousands of BAE-armored commercial vehicles, including Chevrolet Suburbans and Toyota Land Cruisers, to protect State Department officials and other government employees.
"We are putting a new 2008 Land Cruiser into service in the next two months," Flynn said. "That vehicle will be used all over the world in places such as Latin America and Asia, where it is a common vehicle. Customers want vehicles that fit into their market."
The use of commercial pickups armed with .50-cal. machine guns or other weapons - called "technicals" - is on the rise by terrorists and insurgents in the Middle East, according to a report by the TRADOC U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Intelligence Support Activity Wargaming and Experimentation office at the Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
จะเอาวีโก้ไปติดเกราะ้เพื่อเอาไปใช้ใน afganistan โดยเสริมเกราะและกระจกกันกระสุนจากอาวุธเบาทั้งหลาย
เอามาให้อ่านกันนะครับ ไม่ได้มาโฆษณานะครับ เพราะไม่ได้ค่าโฆษณา
