I'm in Beirut for a few days working before heading back to Tanzania and after a drive around yesterday I swear there are more Range Rovers ( no P38's all 322's and newer, normal & Sports) here than I've ever seen in a small place. They are everywhere! I must have seen 20 in about 10 minutes. There are a few LR3 & 4's about and the odd Defender but it's RR's all the way.
Who would have thought it?
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Are any of them armoured? :)
I was surprised when my lad was living in Phnom Penh and he told me that 322's were considered "common"
Morat, is it that bad by you your thinking of getting an armoured version for popping around the estate, lol.
Can’t imagine how much more weight that would add to the car.
I think I just need an armoured grill, headlights and windscreen. Bloody Pheasants!!
I've got a new grill to fit.
Morat wrote:
I think I just need an armoured grill, headlights and windscreen. Bloody Pheasants!!
I've got a new grill to fit.
PIA for sure.
That can get expensive very quickly..
Morat wrote:
Are any of them armoured? :)
When I was looking through car ads here, I noticed several mentioning that the vehicle in question was, "Bulletproof" but I associated it with our meaning, i.e. reliable, etc., then the penny dropped!
None armoured that I saw hahaha. They were everywhere, I've never seen so many in one city/town ever before.
I've been to one of the places that do armoured conversions and the main thing they aim for is making the car appear as normal as possible. The thinking being that if it is obviously armoured then an attacker would search out and go for any weak spots rather than just spraying it with bullets (that will bounce off). One reason they like doing conversions on Range Rovers is that the air suspension still keeps the car at a normal height even when they'd added half a tonne of armour in the doors, extra thick glass, etc.
Certainly the case in NI. I spent a day driving around in a "half armoured" car. It was armoured up to the glass. The official line was that the "dickers" would spot armoured glass so you were better off being able to duck behind the armoured body panels and you could return fire through the windows.
Our strong suspicion was that the dickers would know the car anyway because they didn't get swapped often enough and armoured glass was expensive!
I saw a stage 7 PMC armoured SUV while working in Basrah that had been hit by a shaped charge projectile through the armoured glass. Obviously it killed the occupants of the back seats but the impact hole was at head height, lovely and neat and about 4 inches in diameter. Nothing left of the exit window.... or the poor souls in the back.
The one give away with heavy up-armouring even with air is the body roll rate, unless serious pro upgrades are done the roll is much slower and ponderous compared to normal.