Photo: Sedena
Taking a page from the A-Team, drug cartels of Mexico are creating their
own DIY, Mad Max (Mad Mex?)-styled armored vehicles. This one above was
captured in a metalworking shop:
The completed versions were bigger than what has been found before.
Built on three-axle truck beds, they had room for 20 armed men, one
official said. They were covered with inch-thick steel, which could
withstand 50-caliber fire, and each had been equipped with insulation.
The Mexican Army wasn't impressed, though that may not be the point of
these monsters-on-wheels:
The Mexican Army officials do not seem particularly intimidated.
They have criticized the machines for being difficult to maneuver, noting
that they are designed to frighten rivals.But for most Mexicans, the mere sight of the seized narco-rhino
monsters in military photographs offers a stark reminder that in the
battle against crime here there is no place more dangerous than Mexico’s
roads.
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