Limousine Barack Obama & U.S Secret Service

 

This is the new limousine for U.S. President Barack Obama, the car company, General Motors, has numbered the car according to tradition. Also by tradition, the car is a Cadillac. Its technical features are not openly known, but the masses do have some information.

The car can comfortably accommodate four people, satellite communications and a constant direct connection with the vice president and head of the Pentagon. Thirteen more pics on Limousine Barack Obama & U.S Secret Service after the jump.

 

 

The body is equipped with powerful machine-ty 13 cm armor. According to the results of tests, the Corps maintains direct hit by shells fired from a hand grenade! The design allows the tires to drive in the case of damage. 

 

 

As a preventive protection against possible attacks, the car has a gun with tear gas, other stationary weapons, and is driven by a weapons-trained member of the CIA.

 

 

However, neither the Secret Service nor the administration of General Motors will make the full technical details of "Cadillac One" public. You can always imagine how it must be tuned, though!

 

 

The Secret service are not abbreviated in any way, as USSS is too similar to USSR, and SS is the name of the Nazi elite troopers. The Secret Service are also not the Ministry of Internal Security in any way, they are not responsible for Internal Security, simply personal security for officials and handling terrorist counterfieting.

 

 

Also, the secret service is investigating various types of financial fraud, identity theft and assist in the investigation of some domestic crime.

 

 

In the U.S. Secret Service employs about 5000 people: 2100 special agents, 1,200 police and 1,700 technical and administrative workers. Special agents serve bodyguards officials or investigate financial crimes. 

 

 

The immediate protection of the President and his family is provided for by a special personal protection detail (Presidential Protective Division). In the above picture, George W. Bush uses his armored Cadillac DeVille for ground transport. The Cadillac can withstand a direct hit from a projectile launcher.

 

 

The fuel tank of Obama's limo contains foam filler that prevents it catching fire. The design allows the tire rims to move the car at high speed, even if the actual tires are completely destroyed. The glass is shatter-proof, and the doors lock from the inside - only passengers can open them. In addition to ammunition and tear-gas bombs, the limo carries extra blood in order to give the President an emergency blood transfusion.

 

 

 

In 2003, 34 Secret Service were killed or wounded in the course of doing their jobs, but the government keeps the details of these incidents secret. However, by comparison, the FBI, which employs six times as many people as the Secret Service, lost only 60 to 70 agents.   (Author - Remicks)