We are committed to manufacturing excellence. We are dedicated to your safety in the field. - Blackwater USA website
This sure doesn't look like the under-armored junk the military use. Of course, our military doesn't have multi-billion dollar corporations backing it up, even though our government does.
Blackwater Target Systems
Welcome to Blackwater Target Systems, where we provide solutions for training and tactical challenges to the world's law enforcement and military professionals,federal agencies and to civilian shooters. Our patent-pending "BEAR" system, "BEAR Trap" bullet containment system, and our "BEAR's Den" Modular Shoot-House are the most innovative steel training solutions on the market, and supply the foundation to our indoor and outdoor range designs.
This is what we do… And we do it very well.
"Train hard, or don't train at all."- Blackwater USA website
Here are a few more facts about the "target systems" they have on their compound in Moyock, N.C., as reported in the Virginian-Pilot:
40 gun ranges: 8 have computerized or interactive target systems; one is 1,200 yards long, or 12 football fields
R.U. Ready High School: police train at this 14,746 square-foot, multi-level mock school built after the Columbine shootings
Make-believe town: Half-a dozen or so plywood structures recreate urban-type terrain - an apartment building, church, warehouse. Blackwater has plans to build a 30-acre city that can be reconfigured to mimic any urban area.
Ship trainers: two mock ships launch on a cable onto a 15-acre lake
Shoot houses: 2 live-fire, multi-level, steel houses with changable rooms
Breaching facility: features areas for learning how to cut through fences, torch ship hatches, blow down doors and defeat locks.
A High School and make-believe town (Anywhere,USA). This stuff is scary. Why in the world does a "security firm" need this stuff? They claim they use it to train our law enforcement and military. So I ask, are they training our guys or theirs? Here's an excerpt from an article by Barry Yeoman:
At a remote tactical training camp, in a swamp 25 miles from the world's largest naval base, six U.S. sailors are gearing up for their part in President Bush's war on terrorism. Dressed in camouflage on a January afternoon, they wear protective masks and carry nine-millimeter Berettas that fire nonlethal bullets filled with colored soap. Their mission: recapture a ship -- actually a three-story-high model constructed of gray steel cargo containers -- from armed hijackers.
The men approach the front of the vessel in formation, weapons drawn, then silently walk the length of the ship. Suddenly, as they turn the corner, two "terrorists" spring out from behind a plywood barricade and storm the sailors, guns blazing. The trainees, who have instinctively crowded together, prove easy pickings: Though they outnumber their enemy 3-to-1, every one of them gets hit. They return from the ambush with heads hung, covered in pink dye.
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