The Only Way to Travel: The Rise of Armored Cars as a Medium of Safe
The need of safe and strong source for transporting goods can be date back in the history to the medieval ages, ever since the man become use to of doing trade with his native tribes, he’s been trying his best to develop vehicles or cargo carrying carriages which have the tendency to resists the robbery or hijacking. In early ages caravans were protected by arm carrying troops, to resist the pirates the cargo galleon were modified with cannons and artillery. In modern ages the armored vehicles are basically of three types which are built specifically for the certain purpose, the functions are as follows:
- For transporting goods
- For very important personality VIP movement
- For military purposes
Banks hire a contractors which provides bullet proof van for transporting large cash to banks and debit machines, for this purpose contractors mostly use big vans and trucks specially designed to with stands any situation when they might be attacked by robbers, carrying automatic machine guns. The armored car use bullet reflecting glass and there body panels are stuffed with some sort of force absorbing material which absorbs the force of the bullets keeping the passengers and cargo safe. Some security firms also give their security vans by manning them with one or two arm personal, the driver and his co driver may also be the secondary guards, they are government approved and trained personal and they carry small 9mm or 30 caliber licensed shotguns with them.
For the movement of high graded government official and VIP, customized full size luxuries sedan is used with bullet proof windows and body panels, but unlike military armored vehicles the civilian armored sedans looks no different to any ordinary sedan running on the roads. The civilian armored sedans may have more than just bullet reelecting property, with extra cash they can be equipped with features like automatic fire extinguishing system, blast proof fuel tank, and independent oxygen supply system, and burst proof tires, integrated communication system internal and external. For civilian purpose experts mostly prefer, limousines or big Sub Urban Vehicles (SUV). Civilian protected cars must have to pass the government inspection, and they are use by high security risk personalities working in war zones, members of embassy are provided with the armored cars by the government of that country as it also provide protection against major or minor road accidents, due to the added weigh the driver needs and special training for driving it. All the armored cars produce for various purposes have to gone through series of tests conducted by the government only then it can be used by the official of different organizations such as by the presidents of the country, UN representatives etc.
Armored protection was initially use by the militaries of the various countries to give added protection to their infantries, the tanks and combat airplanes were the first example of armored military carriers. The WW1 proved to be the beginning of the age of reinforced automobiles, In 1909 Mercedes made a proto types reinforces vehicles. Armored automobiles were first adopted by the Los Angeles security firm for transporting military goods such as anti aircrafts guns and other supplies to the required destination and the company introduce many models of its bullet proof vehicles, and they have proof to be the important aspect in social life.
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