Armored Tank With Gun Turret that holds 20 people seized by Mexican Military from the Zetas drug cartel

[웃 910]

For the drug cartel boss who has everything, the latest piece of military hardware is a tank.

The Mexican army announced Sunday night that a military convoy on routine patrol raided a warehouse in Camargo, Tamaulipus, across from Rio Grande City, Tex., and seized two dump trucks that had been rigged with steel plates to carry a squad of gunmen.

The Mexican media and military call them "monstruos," monster trucks.

The monsters look like a cross between a handmade assault vehicle used by a Somali warlord and something out of a "Mad Max" movie with Mel Gibson in a post-apocalyptic no man's land. Complete with battering rams.

The Mexican military has discovered that gangsters south of the Texas border are building armored assault vehicles, with gun turrets, inch-thick armor plates, firing ports and bullet-proof glass.

Last year authorities found one of the most elaborate tunnels ever constructed, stretching more than 2,200 feet, complete with train tracks and ventilation, to move marijuana between a house in Tijuana and a warehouse in Otay Mesa, Calif.

On the high seas, maritime forces have intercepted dozens of "narco-submarines" hauling multi-ton loads of cocaine north. The semi-submersibles travel very low in the water to avoid detection.

U.S. and Mexican border agents have found ramps, tunnels and even a catapult that was used to launch dope over the border fence between Mexico and Arizona.

The appearance of "narco tanks" might seem funny, in a way, but it disguises a serious and deadly arms race among cartels.

http://www.washingto...rALH_story.html

Edited June 7, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[slim 1,533]

Looks like the perfect target for a RPG - available at any gun show in Texas or Arizona!

[웃 910]

Looks like the perfect target for a RPG - available at any gun show in Texas or Arizona!

Why is it legal? Seems like you could take out 100 people in 1 shot in a crowded area...

[Ironman140 45]

Getting. Ready for the second wave of the invasion

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Getting. Ready for the second wave of the invasion

What kind of firepower you got and do you have enough rounds to fend them off?

[Deputy Purple 1,294]

Why is it legal? Seems like you could take out 100 people in 1 shot in a crowded area...

You can't blame a hunter for needing a RPG, some of those game animals are quite large!

[slim 1,533]

Why is it legal?

No. Nor are they for sale at gun shows. Yet when dumbasses start talking about closing the "gun show loophole" so our guns stop ending up in Mexican criminals' hands, they always end up showing pictures of these things as well.

Seems like you could take out 100 people in 1 shot in a crowded area...

100 would be a stretch since it's just a grenade. Contrary to what you've seen in Hollywood, they don't hit a 10-ton truck and throw it end over end. They will blow a nice hole in something though. Something like the OP!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Let's not forget, folks: RPGs don't kill.

[luckytxn 2,265]

Just legalize drugs already and stop trying to control the citizenry.

[Ironman140 45]

What kind of firepower you got and do you have enough rounds to fend them off?

Shhhhhhh big brother is listening and I live in Illinois

But let's just say, there won't be many left when they pry, My toys from my cold dead fingers ;-)

[slim 1,533]

Shhhhhhh big brother is listening and I live in Illinois

But let's just say, there won't be many left when they pry, My toys from my cold dead fingers ;-)

I have an old expired FOID card from back in the dark days when I lived in occupied territory.