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3 days agoNew York StateComments Off on Cops unveil new £180k bullet-proof battle machine – 18 armoured 4x4s to tackle extreme riots unveiled by Met
ARMOURED cars have been spotted cruising London’s streets after cops splashed out on military 4x4s to tackle extreme rioting.
With matte-grey paint, flashing blue lights and the word “police” on the side written in block capitals, the hefty vehicles are hard to miss.
GettyA Metropolitan Police Plasan Sandcat Armoured Unit Patrol vehicle drives through Parliament Square on June 13[/caption]
GettyEighteen vehicles have been bought, and they will be used to tackle rioting[/caption]
GettyA man walks past flames as PSNI officers in riot gear respond to a third night of civil unrest on June 11, 2025 in Ballymena, Northern Ireland[/caption]
Several of the military-grade tanks intended to tackle rioting have been spotted weaving between lanes in London.
These are the “Sandcats” – the newest addition to the Met Police‘s fleet, estimated to cost around £180,000.
The mammoth 9,000kg 4x4s can transport up to 11 officers and stands at 7ft 7in tall.
The new armoured cars will be used for “high-risk armed policing operations” and 18 have been ordered in total.
The Met Police said the new trucks aren’t yet being used in operations.
The force is currently training drivers, which is why they have been seen driving around London.
A spokesperson said: “These are specialist armoured vehicles used for high-risk armed policing operations, by officers deployed at airports and as a contingency option for use in the most serious public disorder the like of which we thankfully rarely see.”
Sandcats are manufactured by Israeli company Plasan and have been used by the military in several countries.
According to the company website, the Sandcat Tigris is the preferred choice for both the IDF and Ministry of Defence.
They replace the older Jankel models, which were deployed during the 2011 riots but have very rarely been used.
GettyRiot police hold back protesters after disorder broke out on July 30, 2024 in Southport[/caption]
GettyViolent riots broke out across the UK last summer in the wake of misinformation about the Southport tragedy[/caption]
The bullet-resistant Jankel Guardians that the force previously used cost about £100,000 each.
The seven-tonne personnel carrier could withstand AK-47 bullets and had a bomb-proof floor.
Over the past year or so, the UK has been rocked by disorder and rioting in the streets.
This week, masked yobs lobbed petrol bombs and fireworks at cops across four days of chaos across Northern Ireland.
Several houses even put up signs identifying their residents as British or Filipino in an apparent attempt to avoid being targeted.
Violence originally erupted on Monday, stemming from an initially peaceful gathering to support a girl and her family after an alleged sexual assault.
Girl ‘whose sex assault by teen boys’ sparked ‘racist’ riots wants violence to end as 4th night of carnage erupts
By Emily Jane Davies
A YOUNG girl whose sexual assault by teenage boys sparked riots across Northern Ireland has called for an end to the violence.
Northern Ireland Police Chief Jon Boutcher said the girl had been “further traumatised” by the riots – as the fourth night of chaos unfolded yesterday.
Police quickly clamped down on hundreds of rioters who were spotted throwing missiles and petrol bombs in Portadown – less than an hour from where the riots started – last night.
Shocking footage showed thugs lobbing live fireworks at rows of police riot vans.
The chaos began in Ballymena on Monday night, hours after two 14-year-old boys appeared in court charged with attempted rape of a girl.
The boys confirmed their names – which cannot be reported – and their ages through a Romanian interpreter at Coleraine Magistrates’ Court.
Northern Ireland‘s Chief Constable told how the girl’s family had been left “mortified” by the horrific scenes.
Speaking yesterday, he said: “I reiterate the retraumatising of this poor girl, she’s been through enough through what happened to her on Saturday evening. She doesn’t want any of this.
“I know the family are mortified. I’ve spoken to them personally, they’ve asked me to make this plea.#
“This girl’s family and this girl want it to end. Our communities want it to end. We need it to end.
“Stop this violence. We will come after you. We will arrest you. We will prosecute you successfully.
“I want to specifically mention the 41 police officers who’ve been injured. Each of those officers have put themselves in harm’s way to protect our communities.
“It is not in any way a way for a civilised society to behave and it must stop now.”
Northern Ireland Police Chief Jon Boutcher said the girl had been “further traumatised” by the riots.
Last summer, Britain was a tinderbox as widespread unrest and disorder broke out following misinformation about the Southport child killer.
In 2020, Scotland Yard put out a notice saying it wanted to buy a new fleet of military-style trucks to tackle public disorder, firearms incidents and riots in the capital.
It wanted security, fire-fighting and defence equipment and armour plating.
The gas-guzzling 4×4 beasts are used by military specialists in warzones and by police tacklingdrug cartelsinSouth America.
Yet, Police Scotland’s bulletproof Sandcat has been locked in storage collecting dust for two years.
Insiders have previously claimed the reason it has remained idle is from a lack of officers able to drive it, with regular training needed to operate it.
The force has refused to comment on how many of its staff can use the 4×4 Sandcat.
Underneath the Sandcat’s hood lies a huge 6.7-litre V8 engine that only does around nine mpg, which is about as fuel-efficient as an F1 racing car.
Although the armoured car hasn’t seen any action, the force still believes it’s necessary to keep it.
A Police Scotland spokesperson said at the time: “The specialist vehicle can be used in a number of scenarios linked to a major incident and improves our options to keep people safe.
“While it has not yet been deployed to a major incident, it has been used for training purposes and it provides additional operational capabilities.”
PAFirefighters tend to a burning police car burns as officers are deployed on the streets of Hartlepool following a violent protest last summer[/caption]
GettyRiot police hold back protesters near a burning police vehicle after disorder broke out on July 30, 2024 in Southport[/caption]
AFPAlice Dasilva Aguiar, Elsie Dot Stancombe, and Bebe King were killed by 18-year-old Axel Rudakubana in Southport – and widespread rioting took place in the weeks after[/caption]
3 days agoNew York StateComments Off on Israeli Mossad agents ‘infiltrate heart of Iran with special-made weapons’
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Spies are alleged to have infiltrated deep in the heart of Iran before Israel unleashed Operation ‘Rising Lion’ on military and nuclear facilities.
Intelligence agents with Israel’s Mossad smuggled ‘special-made’ weapons to destroy defence infrastructure, like ballistic missile launchers.
Footage shared by the agency appears to show two operatives launching a number of missiles near anti-aircraft sites in central Iran.
An Israeli official later boasted that ‘a base for launching explosive drones was established inside Iran and that the drones were activated during the attack to target missile launchers at a base near Tehran.’
Precision weapons were also smuggles into central Iran and strategically positioned near surface-to-air missile systems, the official said, adding that Israel also deployed strike systems on vehicles.
Israeli media reported that these systems ‘took out’ Iran’s air defences and gave Israeli planes ‘air supremacy’.
The Mossad spy agency shared footage showing the moments before the strikes on Iranian infrastructure
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed strikes are going to last for ‘days’ – just as parts of the Middle East were experiencing some semblance of stability.
Matthew Savill, military sciences director RUSI, said the emerging reports are ‘a reminder of Israeli expertise in covert operations, its penetration of the Iranian security establishment and its agility in planning ahead with imaginative operations which can be executed at short-notice.’
Commenting on the breadth and scale of the strikes, he admitted they are intended to not just dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons, but also cripple any potential military response and even to destabilise the regime.
He said the targeting of the IRGC commander, the head of the conventional military, and advisers to Iran’s Supreme Leader, are ‘beyond that necessary for a purely pre-emptive strike’ on the nuclear programme.
It is alleged that Mossad agents infiltrated the heart of Iran to carry out the attacks
Savill explained further: ‘Israel has again demonstrated its considerable conventional military superiority, and the size of the force allegedly assembled for this series of attacks represents the overwhelming bulk of their longer-range strike jets.’
‘They have the ability to conduct multiple rounds of strikes, but operating for an extended duration over this considerable range will stretch even the Israeli Air Force.
‘For now though, they certainly have the capacity to go again.’
