Weapons & Equipment of Counter-Terrorism

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WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT OF COUNTER-TERRORISM Michael Dewar In the war of the terrorist, the frontline is everywhere - in city streets, departmcnt stores, airline seats. The modern terrorist is totally ruthless. To deny him his grisly victories, security forces the world over - army, paramilitary, police and civilian - are increasingly reliant on advanced technology. This book provides a guide to the amazingly diverse weapons and equipment now available. Throughout the world, a bizarre spectrum of terrorist organizations maintain campaigns of hatred and violence in pursuit of political aims. Few countries are now free from attack by one group of fanatics or another. Funded by clandestine sources, these guerrillas infiltrate their target societies to strike seemingly at random, making detection of raiders, their bombs and weapons exceedingly difficult. The response by the free world has been to look to the only practical countermeasures they can use, short of means available only to... Tovább

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WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT OF COUNTER-TERRORISM Michael Dewar In the war of the terrorist, the frontline is everywhere - in city streets, departmcnt stores, airline seats. The modern terrorist is totally ruthless. To deny him his grisly victories, security forces the world over - army, paramilitary, police and civilian - are increasingly reliant on advanced technology. This book provides a guide to the amazingly diverse weapons and equipment now available. Throughout the world, a bizarre spectrum of terrorist organizations maintain campaigns of hatred and violence in pursuit of political aims. Few countries are now free from attack by one group of fanatics or another. Funded by clandestine sources, these guerrillas infiltrate their target societies to strike seemingly at random, making detection of raiders, their bombs and weapons exceedingly difficult. The response by the free world has been to look to the only practical countermeasures they can use, short of means available only to totalitarian states. Explosives can be detected; bombs can be defused; and technology can be brought to bear in surveillance operations. In more open confrontations, protection can be afforded the upholders of law and order by the provision of body armour, shields and crowd-dispersal weapons. Today, the terrorist faces an increasingly effective armoury of equipment. Security forces are becoming better trained, experienced and equipped. More and more automobilé companies are producing IS vehicles; police forces are being equipped with sophisticated equipment; bomb disposal teams now have a wide rangé of tools to detect, disrupt and disarm every sort of explosive device. Perimeter protection is becoming big business; and in the area of communications, surveillance. monitoring, jamming and interception equipment is constantly being refined. Conlinued on back jhip Vissza