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The first thing they'd have to do is either trick the convoy and its screening vehicles into a roadblock and assault the convoy, or use IEDs to stop the convoy
by justin66 5y ago
The first thing they'd have to do is either trick the convoy and its screening vehicles into a roadblock and assault the convoy, or use IEDs to stop the convoy and assault what's left. A number of people have commented on how the semi has its own countermeasures, but it honestly would take an awful lot of effort to even get to the point that such a thing is necessary.
- iamnotwhoiam 5y agoWikipedia says all LEO or military authorized to assist the convoy are given a countersign. This is to prevent tricking into a roadblock like you suggest. It also means that legitimate LEO who try to assist will be fired upon by the convoy. If that happens they are just supposed to take cover until the authorized ones show up and take over.
- justin66 5y ago> Wikipedia says all LEO or military authorized to assist the convoy are given a countersign. This is to prevent tricking into a roadblock like you suggest. I wasn't suggesting anything in particular, but I think the sort of roadblock you'd use to slow down a convoy like this would involve a staged accident to force a detour of the convoy to a less secure route. An awful lot needs to go wrong for that to even be possible, and at the end of the day there's still combat with heavily armed law enforcement needed to get near the cargo. It seems pretty futile, since the end result of applying even an overwhelming (and somehow previously undetected) force to the convoy is probably going to be a ruined road, a ruined semi, and a difficult to open, boobytrapped vault on the road that weighs so much you'd need a crane to move it.
- wolverine876 5y agoForget what Wikipedia says about confidential security information. Is there a basis in reality for that?