The GRIZZLY™ incorporates the Blackwater High Threat Armor Protection System TM (patent pending). This state-of-the-art technology is an exceptional armor system unmatched in the urban APC market. The Blackwater High Threat Armor Protection System is engineered to defeat projectiles up to .50 caliber and to provide an IED-survivable envelope.
We are committed to manufacturing excellence. We are dedicated to your safety in the field. - Blackwater USA website
This sure doesn't look like the under-armored junk the military use. Of course, our military doesn't have multi-billion dollar corporations backing it up, even though our government does.
Blackwater target system
Blackwater Target Systems
Welcome to Blackwater Target Systems, where we provide solutions for training and tactical challenges to the world's law enforcement and military professionals,federal agencies and to civilian shooters. Our patent-pending "BEAR" system, "BEAR Trap" bullet containment system, and our "BEAR's Den" Modular Shoot-House are the most innovative steel training solutions on the market, and supply the foundation to our indoor and outdoor range designs.
Our Chief Design Officer and Vice President of Facilities, spent 15 years designing, constructing, and maintaining the U.S. Navy's most comprehensive and sophisticated ranges at Naval Special Warfare Development Group at Dam Neck, VA. From our "small steel" to our sophisticated movers, turners and modular shoot houses, he has lead the way in developing durable, practical, and cost-effective solutions.
This is what we do… And we do it very well.
"Train hard, or don't train at all."- Blackwater USA website
Here are a few more facts about the "target systems" they have on their compound in Moyock, N.C., as reported in the Virginian-Pilot:
40 gun ranges: 8 have computerized or interactive target systems; one is 1,200 yards long, or 12 football fields
R.U. Ready High School: police train at this 14,746 square-foot, multi-level mock school built after the Columbine shootings
Make-believe town: Half-a dozen or so plywood structures recreate urban-type terrain - an apartment building, church, warehouse. Blackwater has plans to build a 30-acre city that can be reconfigured to mimic any urban area.
Ship trainers: two mock ships launch on a cable onto a 15-acre lake
Shoot houses: 2 live-fire, multi-level, steel houses with changable rooms
Breaching facility: features areas for learning how to cut through fences, torch ship hatches, blow down doors and defeat locks.
A High School and make-believe town (Anywhere,USA). This stuff is scary. Why in the world does a "security firm" need this stuff? They claim they use it to train our law enforcement and military. So I ask, are they training our guys or theirs? Here's an excerpt from an article by Barry Yeoman: 
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