I’m going to be honest, up until now I thought the PSNI Landrover was the go to riot vehicle for all of the UK, seeing the differences of a school bus painted with police colours rather than an armoured block with wheels was a form of culture shock to me.

by commander-thorn

26 comments

  1. I think Liverpool police might have some but not rlly sure to be honest

  2. Yeah, and police stations are just buildings over there. Not something pulled straight from Warhammer 40k like they are over here

  3. Manchester has a version of the land-rover – made by Pangolin I think.

    The only thing with the vans is that one brick and they’re out of action potentially. One of our land rovers could take hundreds lol

  4. I’ve been watching the news, and I’m like, “these cunts in england dont know how to make a petrol bomb wtf?” – then they wheel in these school around the corner peeler vans and i’m like this, fuck sake take a redner, fuckin mustard so it is

  5. The UK didn’t have an ethno-religious conflict for 30 years

  6. The landrovers used here could likely take a hit from an RPG or something similar. They are very heavily armoured.

  7. Blows my mind when I see the Gardaí stations below and they’re just little cottages or semi detached gaffs😂

  8. I remember after the London bridge attacks they announced they were going to arm the police in the UK and we were all like “you guys didn’t have police with guns??”

  9. Aye the difference being that in England they didn’t have armour piercing bullets being shot at them for years or blast bombs being thrown at them!

  10. Basically a slightly updated version of the old snatch Land Rover, resistant to small arms and frags ect but an rpg would decimate it

  11. Aye, it’s all so quiant in the UK. Even seeing these handbangers rioting is kinda cute sometimes, no petrols bombs or anything properly organised

  13. It’s the Playbus!

    But where does it go?

    But where does it stop?

    Watch for the sign of the lollipop!

    STOP! It’s the Checkpoint stop!

  14. Why is the rest of the UK so weak?

    Jokes aside, yeah it is weird to see. The other side feels the same if I’m away in GB or the South for a while.

  15. I remember the Roaul Moat thing they sent over armoured Mitsubishi Shoguns for English police to use 

  17. it’s hilarious when i have friends over from the uk and they see the land rovers for the first time and shit their pants

  18. yep, them English ones don’t like they would stand up to an RPG hit, not like our stylish ones

  19. It’s very much a Northern Ireland thing. Bullet proof glass and armour, the skirts on the bottom are to prevent barrels or similar objects being rolled under to disable them.
    Resistant to small arms fire. I’m not sure as mentioned in another comment they would stand up against an RPG.
    Very heavy. Top speed of about 55mph.

    I always thought throwing a petrol bomb at one of them is fairly ineffective. Same for warzones were you see people petrol bombing tanks. Turns out a police officer once told me that its very very unpleasant for the occupants of the vehicle, especially if they’re in full riot gear.

  20. In England they sometimes bring out horses to deal with football crowds clashes, imagine trying that here.

  21. Aye a drouge bomb would have hit one of those minibuses very effectively back in the day.

  22. My ma went ‘Christ look at the English peelers with their stupid wee baseball hats, fat load of good that’ll do against a brick’ which I think sums things up quite well

  24. The Land Rovers are being phased out. Both Tangi and Pangolin are armoured. Will withstand a full volley round of cal, 45.

  25. Those land rovers are the toughest thing the Brits ever imported here.

  26. They used all the money painting the landrovers white, £££

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