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We can help with your cash in transit, SWAT, Police, and military security and safety needs. Learn more about our amazing line of armored vehicles for sale! [links]
We offer the most reliable and safe armored SUVs, armored vans, and armored cars you’ll find anywhere. From bullet proof Jeeps, and Land Rovers to the Lexus LX570, our fleet is diverse and certain to include the right armored vehicle for your company’s needs. Make The Armored Group your armored car company. [links]
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We carry armored SUV’s and so much more. Our armored SUV’s for sale include the Ford E350, Toyota Landcruiser, and the Lexus LX570, just to name a few. No other company can offer you the armored cars, armored vans and trucks we can. At The Armored Group, the diversity of our vehicles is matched only by the diversity of the countries and companies we ship to.
We offer a full range of armored cars, armored SUV’s, and armored vans and trucks for companies the world over. We customize our armored vehicles to fit the specific needs of our clients, and will work with you to find the right vehicles for you. more
With the armor complete, the team moves on to reassembling the vehicle. Special attention is paid to making the now-armored car look stock both inside and out. Alpine employs specialized teams of upholsterers (other armoring companies employ similar teams) who are trained to match factory fit, finish, and even stitching—not necessarily an easy task on vehicles like the Bentley Bentayga, Lamborghini Urus, or Rolls-Royce Phantom, all of which Alpine armors.
Regardless of the vehicle you chose or what level of armor you opt for, each build largely starts the same. "The first thing we do is strip the entire vehicle to bare-bones metal as if it's just in the middle of production at the OEM factory," Khoroushi said. Next, the armoring process begins. Alpine, like similar companies, uses two types of armor for its vehicles: opaque and transparent. Opaque armor is largely made of ballistic steels, Kevlar, and Dyneema (a textile similar in strength to Kevlar but generally lighter and thicker), though other materials, such as ballistic composites and ceramics, and aluminum, boron, and silicon carbides aren't uncommon. Transparent armor consists of several layers of polyurethane, polycarbonate, and glass ranging in thickness from as little as three-quarters of an inch to more than 3 inches, depending on the application. [links]
When it comes to meeting the needs of its worldwide customer base, Alpine usually confronts a dueling chicken and egg scenario at the start of a vehicle armoring process: Do you want the highest possible levels of armor, or do you want your choice of any vehicle on the market? "We can really armor anything," Khoroushi said, "but a lot of it comes down to cost and feasibility for the client, as well as practicality, too." For example, one could armor something like a Tesla Model S or a Toyota Prius to stop massive .50-caliber machine gun rounds, but it'll likely end up being underpowered and overweight—never a good thing when it comes to armored vehicles. (Just ask the average service member how much they like driving sluggish armored-up Humvees.) more
With the vehicle stripped, the engineering team gets to work fitting the opaque armor, with special attention paid to keeping the car's center of gravity low while also providing the protection necessary to keep occupants safe in case of attack. That typically means fitting materials like Kevlar and steels in the floor and thicker body panels around the frame, though it all depends on the particular vehicle and armor level required. Once the vehicle shell is completed, the team moves on to transparent armor, replacing the automotive glass with layers of bullet-resistant laminates. The final step of the armoring process is to integrate what are known as "overlaps" into the vehicle. "Overlaps are a thin band that goes around the perimeter of the door or on the frame of the vehicle that prevents rounds entering the vehicle within the seams of the door," Khoroushi said. [links]
Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C., Alpine started building armored vehicles in 1997 to meet ever-increasing U.S. government and overseas demand as the post-Cold War world heated up during the Kosovo conflict. As Cameron Khoroushi, Alpine's director of design engineering, put it, the company was able to quickly meet that demand. It now armors everything from Toyota Camrys to Mercedes-AMG G63s all the way up to NATO's most stringent armoring standards. more
Suburban HDs are often armored up to the highest level, capable of withstanding the aforementioned .50-caliber round from a high-powered rifle. But not everyone needs that level of protection. Alpine offers 13 levels of ballistic protection, all tested internally at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground and by the Munich Ballistics Agency. (The latter includes two tests: one where the test vehicle has to withstand 350 rounds of various types and a second test where the same vehicle has to withstand explosions from three grenades.) All this testing allows Alpine Armoring to apply its ballistic standard levels to competing NATO STANAG, Underwriters Laboratory (UL), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and European CEN standards. [links]
Intended to look like a stretched version of a Cadillac XT6 sedan, it’s one of a dozen that make up a contract initially estimated at $15.8 million and designed to help the commander in chief survive virtually every possible form of attack from a terrorist or assassin. And, if the president is injured, the Beast has an extensive range of medical supplies on board, including a refrigerator full of the president’s own blood type.
Nothing is foolproof, but the new version is thought to use a mix of steel, aluminum and ceramic armors, each focused on a different type of threat. The Secret Service declines to provide specific details but the walls of the new limousine are believed to measure at least eight inches thick, with five-inch, multilayer windows that make the doors as heavy as those on a 757 jet. here
The latest version of the Beast, which was commissioned by the Secret Service in 2014, is believed to combine a variety of different technologies, starting out with a heavily modified platform from a Chevrolet Kodiak, a heavy-duty General Motors truck. here
On Sunday, the Secret Service flew into New York with the newest in a long series of specially designed presidential limousines. Like its predecessor, which came into service during Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, the new limo goes by the nickname The Beast. And considering it weighs in at somewhere near 20,000 pounds, that’s clearly appropriate.
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