Checklist for the Executive's Transport Vehicle...

[scramyou]

About 1,463 Call of Duty players creamed themselves watching this video.

[brianrochefort]

@scramyou

You mean they started to creamed around 2:10 to 2:33! :P

[sarcasticscrodum]

you don't need a metal detector

[brianrochefort]

@sarcasticscrodum

It's actually a really good tool for mobile checkpoints for crowd control and weapons check... Tell me why this tool isn't useful...

[brianrochefort]

@tactikoolaid

Hehe, I think I know why you like it...

Actually, I chose the short barrel Tavor version (CTAR 21), for ease of in-car movements...

[John234pwns]

I'm really not sure about the suits, coveralls and oxygen supplies. Gas masks, smoke hoods make sense and all, but executive protection is mostly reactive... that kind of stuff is more Special Forces with lots of prep time and equipment.

Also, slight error. Level III body armor is rifle resistant. Soft armor is IIIA at the most, and I'm pretty sure you mean that from the images of soft armor.

Also I was wondering, why are shotguns so seldom carried for executive protection?

[brianrochefort]

@John234pwns

This is like a WSHTF kit. Actually, you choose which the items that are more usefull for the current operation. Not everything in this kit is needed EVERYTIME you go out on a mission. This kit is based on really nice little book every CPO (Close Protection Officer) have with him. It's called "Executive Protection Specialist Handbook" (Second Edition) written by Jerry Glazebrook & Nick Nicholson. As for Level IIIA, you were right, I forgot the A.

[brianrochefort]

@John234pwns

As for the Shotgun, these are not carried because they don't offer enough ammunition when compared to an attack of attackers armed with AK-47/Uzi/etc.

You need something that gives the same rate of fire or more + something that will penetrate through soft & hard bodyarmor and something that could easily be concealed & shoted from inside the executive vehicule... Some great exemples are the LWRC PSD in 6.8mm & H&K MP7A1 in 4.6mm, both penetrates almost every soft & hard bodyarmor!

[John234pwns]

@brianrochefort I thought the flexibility of the weapon might offset that, interesting though... what, with flares, smoke rounds, tear gas, armor piercing slugs, etc.

So most CP weapons are PDWs of some sort? Makes sense, though I'd have to correct you on the note that none of those weapons can defeat hard body armor, or standard armored vehicles. You need a full power rifle at .308 Win, minimum to do that.

[brianrochefort]

@John234pwns Go ahead on YouTube to look out for HK MP7 on Future Weapons show... You'll see how it does against Hard armor level III helmets and softarmored vehicle! ;)

[John234pwns]

@brianrochefort That's not hard armor. All helmets are IIIA; if they were rifle resistant, they'd be insanely heavy. Hard Armor is level III or IV, capable of stopping .308 Winchester and .30-06 AP respectively; they require ceramic plates. Your average plate for a vest weighs about ten pounds, hence they're not very common for bodyguarding.

The MP7 was only fired at level IIIA armor.

You can look up everything I just said, it can be confirmed from various sources.

[brianrochefort]

@John234pwns

Don't have to look, I remember that you're right! I didn't know the helmet was IIIa and not III...

But MP7 are good alternative for urban combat...

Thanks for your input in this video!

[John234pwns]

@brianrochefort No problem. PDWs do seem ideally suited to executive protection, since resupply and all isn't a big concern.

[xmudman]

I would love to see a video demonstrating how one packs all this equipment into a Suburban, while leaving room for the protectee, his trophy wife, her little dog, etc. I assume there would have to be a second vehicle to use as backup and to haul all the luggage these folks tend to accumulate....

[brianrochefort]

Actually, I'm sure a video like that exists but it's not internet for obvious security reasons.

On the other hand, you're actually right with the amount of "unnecessary" stuff they bring with them. We place the "unnecessary" stuff in the backup vehicle if needed.