$45,000 Golf Cart Protects Against Grenades
This armored golf cart was built for tracking down terrorists in narrow spaces.
Don't you hate it when you're out on the golf course and your cart doesn't hold up against the impact of exploding grenades?
For $45,000, those worries can be washed away with the Metaltech Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart. That's right, its a golf cart decked out with armor thick enough to withstand grenade attacks.
Sify reports that the armored vehicle is a byproduct of 2008's Mumbai terrorist attacks. While we're betting that the Indian special forces secretly had golf in mind, the Anti-Terrorist Assault Cart was created to go where bulkier armored trucks can't venture: hotel lobbies, narrow corridors, and other confined spaces.
"It's a product of our sense of helplessness over the casualties we took in the attacks," said managing director J.B. Sehrawat. "We put our heads and hearts together and came up with the ATAC."
According to the designers--Metaltech Motor Bodies Pvt Ltd.--the armored cart can reach speeds of up to 15 MPH, and can run for six hours on a single charge. The vehicle can also withstand close range fire (thanks to bullet-proof windows) and grenade blasts, perfect for digging out terrorists tucked away in abandoned buildings and narrow caves.
Despite the damage this thing could do on a golf course, this armored cart would be the ideal hiding spot after saying the wrong thing and the significant other comes after you with a golf club.
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Finally Mohammad Wilder can travel around campus in style!
I foresee someone building a modified combat tank out of this thing and very slowly terrorizing their small Colorado town.
Great for school or playing a game out in the middle of a mine field but not quite good enough for I-35 rush hour traffic so it is a APC instead like the BTR-80.
If it comes with anti-goose turrets and it can fix my slice, I'll take one.
always!! now that grenade issue is gone...now if i can golf without worrying about headshots...
Even if it's bulletproof, couldn't you just pop the tires? Then you're a sitting duck.
what about the Badger by Howe&Howe Tech?
Looks like the "Badger" from that Discovery Channel show. Howe & Howe tech, I think.
Bah! Beat me to it.
damn, Tiger could've used one of those
armored golf cart + rpg = two dead special forces + coffin.
hmmm all you would need is the 12 foot hole.
...in retrospect that's one expensive coffin.
I was just in mosul iraq and any protection is better then nothing. There is always ways to disable a vic your a sitting duck in a humvee or bradley to. They like to use RKG3 which is a hand held anti tank gernade which goes through humvees, MRAPS, and i am sure brads like butter. Something like this is made to protect from small arms fire.
My question is how well do the tires handle from a grenade, IED, or RPG?
I'm sure they're not your average tires, but how durable are they?
Finally Mohammad Wilder can travel around campus in style!
lol. That would be hilarious to see in a parody.
I kinda dont see the point in this since you have to get out of the dumb thing to golf..
I kinda dont see the point in this since you have to get out of the dumb thing to golf..
sweet now I can dodge the nades that my neighbor throws at me... useless IMO...
If I was someone targeted by lets say the mafia... I don't think they will be lobbing grenades at me.. and also 15mph is not that fast... chances are I'll just get ram off course or flip over
But is it RPG-Proof? IED-Proof? Chest-Bomb-Proof?
Waste of money.
It probably depends on the rpg there are different types. From the looks of it probably not for the more powerful rpg's. As they can also pierce tank's armor. *Which is why tanks got equiped with racks on the side to stop the warhead from directly hitting the armor*.
But is it RPG-Proof? IED-Proof? Chest-Bomb-Proof?Waste of money.
They said this is for use in places such as hotels.
This will protect against your average ak-47 weilding terrorist for long enough to take control.
It's not a complete waste of money.
stupid article.. this 'cart' has nothing to do with golf at all
NICE!
Sure it can withstand grenades but what about iGrenades?
I could definitely have benefited from that in Bad Company.
It can withstand a gernade, but with its weight and engine can it survive a speed bump?
but not against a simple land mine...
Pardon the obvious but how does this thing go up stairs or round 90 degree hotel bends or is it just for chasing terrorists on the ground floor?
Seriously stop with all this and build me a mecha suit manga styleeeee ;0
It is nothing new. Just another company entering the market.
I'll take 2