Donald Trump He landed last Friday in the United Kingdom to spend four days in Scotland. Although he has held important meetings -with Ursula von der Leyenin which he announced the terms of the commercial agreement with the EU, and Keir Starmer-, the trip was announced as a private visit with time to practice its favorite sport. He did it in his own golf course, Trump Turnberrylocated on the west coast, in Ayrshireand there he was accompanied by a new incorporation into his safety device: a armored utility vehicle (UTV) Polaris Ranger xreminiscent of standard golf cars and has been quickly nicknamed as Golf Force Onein reference to the presidential plane Air Force One.
The vehicle, which was seen following Trump and his son Eric while playing in the golf course, is part of ‘The presidential fleet of special vehicles’according to the White House spokesman for The War Zone.
The public appearance of the vehicle occurs ten months after Ryan Wesley Routh outside the secret service at the Trump Golf Club in Florida while the then candidate was playing. Routh was hidden in the weed, next to the fence near the sixth hole and armed with a riflewhen he was detected by an agent who opened fire against him. Currently, Routh is in prison waiting for trial. Before this event, Trump had already been the victim of an attempt to murder during a rally in Pennsylvania In July 2024. These events have caused security around the current president of the United States.
Trump’s fans for golf have meant since his first legislature a logistics challenge for the Secret Service. The golf courses, extensive and open, offer few places to cover And Trump usually gets away a lot with his cart of nearby agents. The new armored utv You can offer a faster response and coverage in case of emergency.
‘The US secret service uses various tools and resources to protect the president. To maintain operational security, the Secret Service does not reveal the specific media or methods that we use to carry out our protection operations‘, said the agency in a statement collected by the middle.
The armored vehicle, manufactured by Polaris and subsequently modified by an unidentified company, is designed to give A rapid off -road response offers ballistic protection. While the base model of the Polaris Ranger x It costs some $ 20,000additional armor kits can Increase your price drastically.
According to the US General Services Administration.a Chicago company called SCALETTA ARMORING offers a protection kit for the model RANGER XP 1000 UTV valued in almost $ 190,000with scalable ballistic resistance levels according to needs.
Experts point out that the versatility of this platform is adequate for open and vulnerable areas such as golf courses. ‘With regard to armor, the limit is put by your imagination,’ said an expert in the United Kingdom security to The Telegraph.
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‘If the threat is someone with a baseball bat, you can install plexiglass. But if it is a 7.62 mm dragunov sniper rifle with metal tip ammunition, then you need a thicker transparent armor‘, he explains, in reference to the laminate layers that, combined with glass, are used to make bulletproof windows. ‘The thicker the transparent armor, the more tinting the glass looks’adds the expert, which is cited by the newspaper based on anonymity.
The type of vehicle chosen by the Secret Service, reminiscent of standard golf cars, for Trump’s protection in this kind of environment is not a whim. On a golf course, any type of vehicle cannot move. At least, if you don’t want to destroy the carestical care they have. For this reason, The UTV is limited by weight and has wide tires to distribute it better.