So why do the cops need a tank?

[Savannahmann]

50. By more armor I mean resistance ability

The MRAP has the ability to resist RPG's, or Rocket Propelled Grenades, which is an anti-tank weapon. The Bradley, M-551 Sheridan, and the BMP pictured do not have the ability to resist RPG's. So the vehicle which the Dallas County Sheriff's department has just picked up has MORE armor than a those tanks. I'll call them tanks in deference to the demands above that tanks have tracks.

One of the things you have not addressed is the reason that the Dallas County Sheriff's department, or really any law enforcement agency would need a vehicle (tank) like this. Why do they need the ability to mount a machine gun or automatic grenade launcher on the roof behind armored shields?

Notice the windows again. Notice how they all have bars across them. That is to help detonate an RPG far enough away where the explosive force is diminished from the window. The window is also extremely thick, and is rated to stop a .50 Cal round.



So how much protection do they give?

On 19 January 2008 a 3rd Infantry Division U.S. Army soldier operating as the exposed turret gunner, was killed in a Navistar MaxxPro MRAP vehicle by an ANFO IED estimated at 600 lb.[67] It is unknown whether the gunner was killed by the explosion or by the vehicle when it rolled over after the blast. However, the vehicle’s v-hull was not compromised. The crew compartment also appeared to be uncompromised in the attack, and the three other crew members who were inside the vehicle survived; one with a shattered left foot, a broken nose and several broken teeth; one with a fractured foot; and the third unhurt.[67][68][69][70] Although this was reported as the first MRAP combat death, later reports clarified that several soldiers had been killed by IEDs in RG-31s and by EFPs in Buffalos before this incident.[71]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRAP

So this vehicle, the exact same sort that the Dallas County Sheriff's office just picked up, survived an explosion of over 600 lbs of the same explosive that took out the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Timothy McVeigh used 4800 lbs of explosive. That means that the vehicle survived an eighth of the explosive that did this to a concrete and steel building.



Are you sure that you don't want to call the bloody thing a tank? Because they call the armored limo that the President rides in the Presidential Tank. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=presidential+tank&qpvt=presidential+tank&FORM=IGRE

But perhaps you should run around and inform the Press, and everyone on the Internet that it's not a tank, because it doesn't have tracks. We aren't sure about the cannon of course.