tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post637018417090380480..comments2024-03-28T00:11:33.489-04:00Comments on bensozia: Apocalypse Tanks: Improvised Armored VehiclesJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-30513027580761134532015-03-18T11:22:36.911-04:002015-03-18T11:22:36.911-04:00You're spot on about protection from rifles.
...You're spot on about protection from rifles.<br /><br />Really it's a matter of defending against the primary threats you face. These soldiers are simply far and away more likely to run into a bunch of guys with Kalashnikovs than with RPG-6s. And if you're driving around in a normal vehicle, an AK is going to tear right through it. A single idiot with half a magazine of ammo can kill an entire car load of people very easily.<br /><br />So if you're part of a militia movement and you spend a lot of your time driving around, and one day your buddy's truck gets shot full of holes with him in it, you start thinking, <i>"Hey - I should armor my truck so I don't get killed by some idiot with half a magazine of ammo."</i><br /><br />You actually don't need much to make reasonably effective plate armoring, and these vehicles prove that. They also don't take very long to make, or cost very much - just brutishly weld some thick enough scrap metal onto the sides. A little rust doesn't matter, you can just paint over it.<br /><br />An element of "larkishness" doesn't really enter into the equation for me. These trucks are clearly being outfitted for the purpose of trying to keep bullets out of human flesh, and that seems deadly serious to me. If they "look funny", it's only because they're spartan affairs slapped together by desperate young men using whatever garbage they could find or afford to put between themselves and perforation.G. Verlorennoreply@blogger.com