Jordanian Royal Guard SUV with Mini-Gun

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ImPOctobuS23@reddit

Enemy of my enemy is my friend's cod mw2 mission vibes

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ginger2020@reddit

“You and I both know you won’t last a week, Makarov”

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sailor776@reddit

Damn battlefield hardline was underrated

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Swedzilla@reddit

IIRC I’ve read somewhere that the USSS has one or two of these as well 🤔

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WillusMollusc@reddit

These guys must love these shoots, they get to just drive around like mad lads for 30 mins and have a go on the minigun

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Luknron@reddit

Yeah. No other use for that really.

Why would you want to hide a thing like that? And if not hide; then why are you be in an unarmored vehicle like that to and go through the effort of getting it up before you can use it?

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AraedTheSecond@reddit

A) probably not unarmoured, because that would be stupid

B) area fucking suppression.

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Sea-Routine9227@reddit

It’s deliberately not armored. The reason being that, through testing etc., during an ambush people would hunker down inside an armored vehicle versus responding in force, and shooting back.

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I’m pretty sure that’s just the excuse the US army said to justify not spending the money to up armor the humvee in GWOT even though that turned out to be stupid and unnecessarily wasted lives. What you described is a training issue. Deliberately removing ballistic protection from your troops has to be a truly regarded idea.

It very well may be armored anyways. The whole goal of VIP escorts is to get out of there as fast as possible. I have never heard of any trained person saying the goal is to get out of the vehicle and sit in the kill zone.

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jcinto23@reddit

Iirc I saw a vid a few years ago from either the company that makes these or one that makes things like these and yeah, they are armored on the inside. Some also have a smokescreen system in the engine, oil slicks and caltrop bins. I am not even joking.

Inb4 mythbuster thing. Yes, they did do the caltrop test, but the SUV caltrop spikes were tapered from the base to the tip rather than just a cylindrical rod with a spiky tip like the mythbuster ones. This would (at least theoretically) let them actually pop a tire and slide out rather than just embed themselves into it.

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bigmarty3301@reddit

It’s probably not armored, if you are going to armor something it’s going to be the wind shield. And you can se the windshield is not protruding on the inside or outside,..

the interior shots make it pretty much clear it’s unarmored.

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Luknron@reddit

It's a police vehicle judging by the sirens it has. Also, maybe it is armoured. Doesn't look like it though.

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TestyBoy13@reddit

That’s the point, it’s not supposed to look armored

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Luknron@reddit

Why?

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TestyBoy13@reddit

It’s a defensive measure on its own. If an uneducated fella wants to attack a normal looking GMC, he’ll probably think all it takes to deal with the target is a couple rounds of 5.56mm from an AR-15 and wouldn’t consider going through the effort of acquiring something more effective like high explosives or .50BMG. Cadillac 1 was the same way. It mostly looks completely unprotected, but it’s able to stop most caliber bullets

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Luknron@reddit

As the vehicle is not otherwise concealed. It has a navy blue paintjob and possibly tinted windows. All I get from this is that they're trying to bait people to fire at them?!

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TestyBoy13@reddit

The idea is, “If you’re planning to shoot at us, we hope you underestimate the firepower needed to actually do anything.”

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Luknron@reddit

I'm sure the ambushers or whoever are long gone before the guy has his minigun set up, let alone starting to acquire a target told by others.

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TheScarlettHarlot@reddit

Think it depends on the type of attack.

Lone gunman? Sure. He's disappeared or already been caught by the time the gun is out.

Blunt force assault assassination attempt? That gun will do some work.

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Q_X_R@reddit

I would agree. This vehicle works well for the worst case scenario, being that they need to hold an area until whichever VIP can get clear.

It's probably pretty well armored, and it has a really scary machinegun mounted to the top. Part of the royal guard's duties are anti-terrorist operations as well, so they clearly have that bit down.

If they get charged by 12 suicide bombers or whatnot, they won't be getting charged for very long.

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Cayubi@reddit

Its most likely a escort vehicle, hes a big fucking target if he is just outside with the gun.

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Luknron@reddit

Okay but it's not like an escort vehicle's gunner would be the target?

Having visible arms would perhaps even deter an enemy

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AraedTheSecond@reddit

Or it tells everyone "shoot here"

Bloko riding on top of the armoured car holding a minigun is the definition of "high priority target". Bloko sat inside an otherwise normal vehicle isn't a target.

Also, vehicle with a minigun on top is also a high priority target. Otherwise normal vehicle isn't.

There's a reason armed forces use camouflage, and it's to avoid a giant "please shoot here" sign

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Aggravating-Tax561@reddit

Having traveled to countries like this it’s not uncommon for various government entities to use lights and sirens. It’s also not uncommon to see armored military style vehicles with machine guns driving/ escorting/ patrolling. This is the royal guard so they probably are using an armored SUV for the “presidential” presentation and don’t want any negative connotations that can be perceived from an executive rolling through their cities with overt heavy weapons.

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Excellent_Stand_7991@reddit

Doesn't look like it though

Of course it does not look armoured, that is the point, all the vehicles are deliberately made to not stand out and look the same.

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Luknron@reddit

With sirens ontop.

Why though?

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Excellent_Stand_7991@reddit

To tell traffic to move during emergencies, same as undercover police cars.

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Luknron@reddit

Not looking very undercover though with sirens on top. Possibly the same nave blue paint and tinned windows as a regular police vehicle.

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Excellent_Stand_7991@reddit

When protecting heads of states, maximum effort is needed at all times. And most royal guards are a branch of military law enforcement, so there is probably a mix of vehicles with and without the lights.

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Luknron@reddit

I guess you're right

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FearTheBurger@reddit

If you can't imagine a scenario in which having a pair of these bracketing vehicle wouldn't change the math on an assassination attempt, then you must not be blessed with a great number of brain cells.

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lique_madique@reddit

It’s an armored escort vehicle.

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TiffanyTastic2004@reddit

This some shit out of an action movie and I LOVE IT

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Fast-Possible1288@reddit

I remember reading a Popular Mechanics article about this when I was a teenager. The tag line was about how the mini gun could destroy a Taco Bell in 30 seconds

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leont21@reddit

And Taco Bell can destroy your butthole in 30 seconds. So who’s the real champion?

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hesapmakinesi@reddit

I'm pretty sure miniguns can destroy buttholes too.

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kurtz433@reddit

Appreciate that the hydraulic roof door to be kick-initiated, and that there’s so much interior cabin to catch 1/3 of those spent shells.

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davidhunt6@reddit

If it's the same one that was on TV, the floor is a grate to allow the shells to fall through

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Btree101@reddit

Whoa, cool.

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Right-Radiance@reddit

The King of Jordan spared no expense.

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Trans-Europe_Express@reddit

What's the actual tactical use of a mini gun on a convoy SUV especially over what a normal mounted machine gun can achieve?

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Primordial_Cumquat@reddit

Miniguns suppress the ever loving fuck out of targets. They chew through cover, eventually turning hard cover into soft cover and soft cover into dust. Since step one in countering an ambush is to gain overwhelming fire superiority and then maneuver, a minigun is pretty well-suited to that task.

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Key-Lifeguard7678@reddit

This. Miniguns were made so helicopter door gunners can lay the suppressive needed to secure a landing zone under fire.

Same task, different vehicle.

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leont21@reddit

This guy suppresses

This guy flanks

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Primordial_Cumquat@reddit

You always fire and maneuver. There could be girls watching!

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BigRedfromAus@reddit

If all the vehicles look the same then the ambush won’t expect a pop up mingun to deal with. But if it was exposed then it’s basically “shoot me first” consideration.

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Q_X_R@reddit

Considering part of what the Jordanian Royal Guard does is anti-terrorist operations, and that they're located in the Middle East, part of it is they probably want something that's immediately scarier to anybody that might attack the convoy transporting their... King? I assume they have a king of they have a royal guard, at least?

And also someone probably said, "It would be really neat if we got a minigun mounted on our SUV instead of a .50 or DShK. As long as it works!

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