via APA.az
Armored patrol vehicle Pit-Bull VX, newly produced by Turkish Katmerciler company, will be presented in Azerbaijan, company representative Ramazan Dincer told APA.Interesting for a couple of reasons.
The vehicle designed for police and patrol operations was produced at Ford-550 chassis. Its maintenance is easy: “Net weight – 7530 kg, Pit-Bull VX is designed to carry 9 persons (2+7). The vehicle can move at a speed of 12 km / h and turn the area of 9 meters. We think that this vehicle will be more favorable for the border guards”.
According to the company representative, earlier, Katmerciler sold TOMA vehicles to Azerbaijan’s Interior Ministry. At the same time, the company exported various types of vehicles to SOCAR. The company, which produces various equipments deployed on fire engines to extinguish fire in multi-storey buildings, is seeking opportunities for cooperation with the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
*This is another Turkish firm that is selling "combat"/military style vehicles.
*Azerbaijan is following the US style of policing by buying this vehicle instead of the European version. I'm not sure if thats a good or bad thing. The Europeans have been fighting terrorism alot longer than we have and although the results were ... slow, they did win in the end.
*This truck looks like a BEARCAT clone which is essentially a MRAP that has been SLIGHTLY de-militarized. For good or bad it looks like these type vehicles are here to stay.
Careful Sol, you almost complimented us poor pansy socialists on the other side of the pond ;).
ReplyDeleteFrom my point of view, if the police start driving these things fairly regularly, it would almost look like they're scared of the citizens and society they're meant to protect. Not the image i'd want to be putting across.
Also why the hell do law enforcement need MRAPs? I don't remember the Boston bombers, or any other terrorist/criminal attacks in the US using IEDs. Last time any Western law enforcement legitimately needed that kind of vehicle was in Northern Ireland, and maybe Basque country.
no, the wording was done exactly the way i wanted and it was a compliment. i don't know the ends and outs of all the issues that come along with combatting terrorism but what i saw in Boston is something I NEVER thought i would see in the US....and we're talking about basically two snotting nosed brats with delusions of grandeur.
Deletethe problem that i see is that the rest of the world seems to be migrating toward US style policing and i'm not convinced that its the best example.
this purchase worries me because it indicates a more militaristic approach to governments dealing with its citizens. now answer this for me. what is the difference between how the US deals with dissident groups and how China does? if you're talking about stuff at the edges then that means that we're becoming more brutal and that is NOT a good thing.