Security Contractor Recounts Attack on Convoy, Praises Armored Vehicle Provided by International Armoring Corporation

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For the three years that his team has been stationed in Iraq providing communications support, IT Professional John Leary wondered when the reality of where he was would finally sneak up on him. Being stationed in what’s known in the “Green Zone”, Leary was not accustomed to any kind of violence in the area where he was situated.

“Typically, we’d travel by way of car when we had to vary in our duties throughout our encampment,” Leary explains. “We had a couple of H2 Hummers that we were told were armored, but I always wondered how much armoring it would take to protect from something like (a roadside) IED, and it scared the hell out of me.”

Leary and four of his fellow contractors came under attack when transporting between stations via armored vehicle sales and equipment specialist International Armoring Corporation’s Armored H2 Hummer, en route to a destination about 4 miles from their usual position.

The armored H2 Hummer, a limited edition offering by International Armoring Corporation, had been armored to the fullest extent possible. Equipped with a dry-cell anti-ballistic battery, as well as a ballistic-resistant fuel tank and ballistic resistant undercarriage armoring, the Hummer can withstand IED blasts tantamount to that of a grenade OR landmine without any damage whatsoever to the undercarriage of the vehicle.

In addition, the vehicle was equipped with run-flat tires, which utilize a series of inner tires and metal ball bearings to provide an additional 60 miles of transportation, at speeds of up to 60 mph, once the tires have been blown out. Anti-ballistic, bulletproof glass can stop 3 .44 slugs dead in their tracks, with no shard debris entering the cabin of the vehicle.

As Leary and his convoy got to about a mile and a half out from their encampment, a violent and concussive blast suddenly shook the side of his vehicle, tipping it in the process and nearly knocking it over.

“The driver of the vehicle swerved to regain control, and it felt like he barely landed the thing back on four tires,” Leary recalls. “My first thought was ‘we’re going to die.’”

Two tires were instantly flattened, and the vehicle came under gunfire immediately following the explosion. Bullets ricocheted off the hummer’s exterior, yet never entered the cabin of the vehicle. All four windows, including the window, revealed multiple trajectory impacts, yet not a single window on the vehicle was damaged structurally enough to crumbled beneath the insurgent gunfire.

All four contractors, and all convoy vehicles made it safely out of the hostile territory, where after all four reached their destination without so much as a scratch on their bodies. The bulletproof hummer provided to them by International Armoring Corporation, leading distributor of armored cars for sale, saved their lives, delivered them safely to their destination, and withstood the impact of what was later learned to be a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) fired from an unknown location, as well as multiple .762 round impact marks. The vehicle, operationally, was unscathed.

“The efforts of International Armoring Corporation save lives,” Leary confided. “I would’ve never known this vehicle had this level of armoring just by looking at it.”