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Florida Town Buys 9-Ton Emergency TK-4 Tactical Vehicle to “Provide Residents Extra Protection During Hurricanes”
Palm Beach Gardens Buys 9-Ton Emergency TK-4 Tactical Vehicle to "Provide Residents Extra Protection During Hurricanes"
What a way to pitch this new purchase by PB Gardens for a new "rescue/emergency/communications vehicle" while a hurricane is bearing down on Florida...
From the Palm Beach Post...
Weighing 9 tons and capable of withstanding 100-mph winds, a rescue/emergency/communications vehicle bought by the city for $175,000 is expected to provide residents with extra protection during hurricanes and other dangerous situations.
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“It’s a great city and regional tool. We used it on several emergency calls here and in other cities in north county,” said Mayor David Levy.
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The 20-foot-long All-Hazard Special Response Vehicle, also known as the TK-4, was used by Gardens police on a trial basis for about three weeks in July. Several other South Florida communities considering buying a TK-4 also used the vehicle, said Chris Light, president of Armored Solutions Inc., the Pittsfield, Mass.-based company that manufactures the vehicles.
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The TK-4 is now back in Pittsfield where company employees are adding a winch to lift trees and other heavy debris and a night camera. The vehicle should be delivered to Gardens just after Labor Day, Light said.
The article then goes on to say...
Up to 10 people can fit inside the vehicle. That will give Gardens flexibility in using the TK-4 to handle different emergencies from SWAT team emergencies to lifting fallen trees, Light said.
Like they are going to send this thing out to move a fallen tree.
Some additional features listed by the PB Post...
- Equipped with winch to lift trees and other debris
- Has 3-inch thick laminated glass windows
- Withstands 100-mph winds
- Travels up to 65 mph
- Has search lights
- Can withstand 50-caliber bullets
- Has 20-year life expectancy
Interestingly, the Palm Beach Post left out some of the vehicles best features.
The ASI TK-4 is an armored SWAT vehicle designed to accommodate up to 10 tactical officers. With armor piercing protection, the TK-4 can maintain highway speed, and 4-wheel drive is standard equipment for use on unstable terrain.
TK-4 Features
- The TK-4 roof hatch has armor piercing shield protection, and ASI’s exterior sniper gun port gives the team a clear view to any impending threat. A rotating turret has a 360° turning radius. The interior sniper step allows easy access to the roof.
- The TK-4 is standard with ASI’s "outrigger" extended running boards that allow the tactical team additional solid footing while riding on the exterior of the vehicle.
- All TK-4 front doors have the capability to lock open at a 90° angle as well as a 45° angle allowing the team shield coverage. ASI’s gap shield with armor piercing protection gives complete door coverage at all angles.
Some Additional STANDARD Features on the TK-4
- The TK-4 emergency package includes a 200 watt siren PA system, front and rear Wig-Wag and front and rear alternating red and blue strobe lights.
- Upgraded suspension and tires.
- An after-market AC with an additional condenser is installed. This in conjunction with the TK-4 Insulated walls and ceiling helps keep interior climate control stabilized.
- The TK-4 has 11 ASI machined exterior gun ports: 8 standard gun ports and 3 sniper gun ports with a 7” opening for sniper rifles.
- The TK-4 360° protection includes the engine compartment, fire wall and fuel tank.
So there you have it. A perfect vehicle for rescuing kittens that are stuck in fallen trees during a hurricane...
You can check out the vehicles website here...
Love the guy at the top of their webpage...
I bet he loves kittens...
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I think that's more because the government thoughtfully stockpiled helium for it's blimp armada than because of the lack of (higher cost) alternatives, however.
police chief def has issue to compensate for....mayor Levy has extra money to blow on this lead sled? 100mph? barely cat1? really...does it work underwater, as people who live in FL know that water is far more damaging/risky than high winds....20 miles away from storm center winds drop rapidly.
175k+ maint; while their public schools sell dominoes pizza cards to raise funds for computers and pe equipment....suggested reading for the weekend: fahrenhiet 451
...also i didnt realize it was a requisite that if you are a police chief of some measure to also be a skinhead...see sheriff scott of lee county....
Someone 'compensating' for other issues?
Great waste of taxpayer money to make sone official feel more macho. One of the many reasons the US is gong broke fast.
cynicalskeptic
This is what I don't get, why don't normal citizens just buy their own to drive.
There have to be some floating around as military surplus.
I get the expense to taxpayers, and the militarization of the US.
But at some point a group of like minded citizens, maybe a neighborhood watch, need to chip in and start purchasing their own high tech hardware.
Government already sets a precedent.
my neighborhood watch group already makes 'outsiders' uncomfortable enuf open carrying glocks and wearing body armor without their own tank
we also carry paintball guns to mark suspicious cars
makes it easier to identify them to the 911 operator
'you are looking for a black mid-nineties audi with blacked out windows and yellow paintball splats all over it'
Violatation of 4th amendment. Remember that one!?
Tuco
There's 20 000 that are coming back to the US. Most of them right now are in Afghanistan... they'll come back to the US once the war ends and will be given to cops...because we all know the real enemy of the government is the american people.
Enjoy.
No no no.....you leave the 20,000 already built there and build 20000 new ones for domestic use. That's what the printing press is for, right?
The war ends? Yeah, sure! Any moment now!
None of you would last 3 seconds with any person coming out of that truck.
Hubris meets nemesis.
"The ASI TK-4 is an armored SWAT vehicle designed to accommodate up to 10 tactical officers." -- Well, there you have it, then. It holds a total of ten PUSSIES!
LoneStarHog
Someone is drunk
i'm sure it could hold more kittens than that
all right, everybody in for your own safety now....
i said fucking now!
NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
or i'll shoot you in the face!
for your own protection of course
....stormy weather....
What a bunch of pussies. Real men would go for the M1A1/2 Abrams Main Battle Tank. Not that piece of junk.
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/abrams/
Are the tires solid rubber? They don't look like it. They probably are but just in case shoot one with a 22 caliber and see if you can't disable the $200k vehicle.
I bet that 9 ton vehicle would never do something like get stuck in mud. You know, like when a hurricane hits and there's lots of rain.
lol, just like ED209 in Robocop 'Spare parts for 20 years; Who cares if it works or not?'
Your tax dollas at work...
Oh, it has run flat tire inserts:
http://www.armored-solutions.com/tactical-vehicle-tk4.asp
Best solution is probably just stay away from it lol.
What's next, an M1A2 Abrams Fire Rescue Vehicle and an M2A3 Bradley Ambulance?
This sort of things pegs the Zoltrex 4000 Bullshit-Tyranny-Meter so hard to the max-reading side it snaps the fucking needle.
place IED here ___.
double post.
(sorry, bitchez)
Copper Conez, Bitchez!
http://defense-update.com/features/du-2-05/IED-1.htm
Will find "up to 10 snipers" drowned in the back as this is winched out of a puddle from flash flooding during the hurricane.
Most of southern Florida is too flat for floods like you suggest. Slipping into one of the many water hazards on local golf courses is a more likely problem.
But it's only safe to 100 MPH? Whay kind of a pathetic hurricane is that? I'd want something safe to at least 170 MPH. There must be lots of old tanks around. Perhaps an M48 Patton would be good.
Wow, that thing must be pretty roomy. I bet it can probably protect 5 maybe 6 "residents" during a hurricane or other dangerous situation. Well done boyz, well done.
Talk about spoon feeding bullshit to the sheep.....
It looks well suited to the task of commuting on I-95 in Palm Beach County. I've often wished I drove something similar.
It's happening all over the country. Areas of the government that don't even hav any business handling firearms, like the social security administration, are loading up on guns and hollow point bullets. Just what we need to feel "safe". You feel safe?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/texas-judge-warns-possible-civil-war...
Continuity of Government supersedes protecting and serving the common folks.
That fucker will be stuck in the mud/sand first hurricane that comes along. What a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Can it stand up to an IED or a gallon of jellied gasoline? I understand those are common threats during hurricanes.
The greatest danger in Palm Beach during a hurricane is that posed by all the walkers and wheelchairs flying around. This vehicle looks capable of withstanding those.
Posse Comintatus is mute when the local police are equipt as a military unit. Time to start firing mayors and police chiefs, they forgot who they are serving and protecting.
This purchase is what used to be referred to as neurotic behaviour.
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Now it's known as Reichland Security, protecting our precious bodily fluids in the eternal war against terra, so it's progressed from neurotic behaviour to a psychotic break from reality.
Good thing so many see through the international communist conspiracy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1KvgtEnABY
no self-respecting police state should be without one
coming to every city near you, "the kitten rescue mobile", some cities might need fleets of these things.
That'll help the auto industry during the undergoing downturn........
One brave soul and a wheel clamp...
can you get a wheel clamp on ebay?
edit:
holy shit, you CAN buy a wheel clamp on ebay
Ahhhh.... Palm Beach Gardens.... The beacon of safety and care about public....
A couple of years ago I was in a minivan, left a restaurant south of the PBG, around 1 AM, when we were pulled over by 5 or 6 PBG police cruisers, with guns drawn, ordering us all (6 people inside, 3 married couples) to exit the vehicle one by one, because we were suspected of abusing one of the female passengers inside. Abuse was based on the fact that we left a restaurant that was frequented by members of a Eastern European community, so we too were wife beaters. 30 minutes of "checking identity", with usual threats and niceties (i.e. stay on your feet, don't speak to each other), we were graciously allowed to proceed on our merry way, since we broke no laws, and noone had been beaten inside the vehicle - imagine that!
Written complaints to the PBG were not answered. Considered filing a lawsuit, but decided to let it go and just stop going to that part of Miami.
Miami is about 100 miles south of Palm Beach Gardens.
No east european resturants either.
You need to see the relatively new council building.OPM and none spared by the
council looters,oops leaders.
$175,000! See below:
1) take out the driver using a hand held, 2 watt UV laser. Blinds instantly. A military grade weapon you can make in your garage and proof you can never supress information even in soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. 2) Thermite opens up a 4 inch hole in the roof in seconds. 5600F does that. Blinding the driver gives you the diversion to get someone on top to burn the hole. 3) add molotov coctail or frag grenade of your choice to elminate the threat. The "opponents" wont even get out of the damned metal casket, or if they do, they'll die of injuries sustained.
Seeing LEO show up thinking they are impervious - millions of dollar cost to the government. Value of seeing it go up in a blaze of glory in only seconds with under $1000 of materials -
PRICELESS!
Who needs guns when you have knowledge and the will to act. Their weapons become the seeds of their own destruction.
There are thousands of people who "know things" and could wage asymetric war with unfair advantage - 10,000 to one wouldn't even be close.
Now if your argument is that this is putting Americans to work building these hunks of steel, then perhaps I could support it. We sure need more jobs, even if they are "make work".
"We sure need more jobs, even if they are 'make work'."
You mean like Nordhausen?
Does it have a beer fridge?
No but it gets great gas milage ! What.....maybe 3 miles to the gallon?
They are retards. Every kitten knows that a cat knapper would shoot the tires out and roll a 5 gallon container of gasoline under it.
Arrest the mayor.
ditto. Arrest the mayor and recall the city council and bring them all up on charges of waste/fraud/abuse.