If you want to ask what are the most beaten cars in the world, then the US president's [Army One] is definitely one of them, in order to ensure the personal safety of the president, Americans can be said to have spent a lot of thought on this super car! So can this Army One withstand the attack of RPG bazookas?
RPG Bazooka vs Army One
Speaking of which, we may wish to first understand the overall protection of the car, in fact, this Cadillac, known as the "Beast", has gone beyond the concept of the car, it should be called 'mobile fortress', or 'lightweight tank'
Army No. 1 has a total weight of about 9 tons, the shell and chassis of the body are composed of steel aluminum titanium and ceramic mixed armor, of which the thickness of the door is about 20 centimeters, so the thickness of the mixed armor, the protective ability is equivalent to more than 600 mm of homogeneous steel armor, which means that any gun bullet hits this, it is like a boot tickling, even if you throw a grenade, you still can not cause any damage to it.
Full body protection
So is it feasible to use the more classic RPG-7 bazooka? According to reports, the penetration thickness of the rpg-7 on the homogeneous armor is about 350-400 mm, so it is obviously powerless against the door of Army One, but if the latest Russian RPG-30 is used, the situation may be very different, because this bazooka is not only able to penetrate the explosive reaction armor components, but also the penetration thickness of the homogeneous armor exceeds 600 mm, so it is very likely that it will penetrate the Army One with one bullet.
Let's look at the window protection of the president's car, its side window is 12 cm thick bulletproof glass, the thickness of the front windshield bulletproof glass is up to 15 cm, through the test can see that the window can fully withstand the impact of pistol bullets, even if you use a machine gun to strafe, or with a more powerful sniper rifle, it is difficult to break through.
Bulletproof glass that bullets can't penetrate
So in the face of such a strong physically strong bulletproof glass, can the rpg rocket launcher get it done in one fell swoop? The Russians had done such an experiment, they placed a 400 mm thick multi-layer bulletproof glass in front of a dummy, accompanied by a shining fire and a loud noise, the heavy bulletproof glass was directly punched out of a large hole.
RPG-7 strikes 400 mm thick bulletproof glass
Breakdown
For further testing, they added a 200 mm thick bulletproof glass to the front of the bulletproof glass, and the result was that the two pieces of bulletproof glass were easily broken down in an instant. It can be seen that even the ultra-thick bulletproof glass is vulnerable in front of the RPG bazooka! Therefore, as long as the RPG bazooka can accurately hit the window of army one, then the people in the car are afraid to die.
Two pieces of bulletproof glass were easily broken
In general, although the protection performance of army one is world-class, it is not a heavy main battle tank after all, even the protective armor of the main battle tank, does not dare to guarantee that it can withstand the impact of rpg rocket launchers one hundred percent, perhaps the people who developed him are also very aware of this fact, so the president of the United States needs to have a strong convoy to protect it every time he travels, not only that, in the entire convoy, you usually see two identical Army One. The aim is to make it unclear which car the president is in.
Two Army Ones