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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_state_car_(United_States)
https://spyscape.com/article/7-top-secrets-about-the-beast-presidential-limo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Service_Counter_Assault_Team
A pop-up Gatling gun that comes out of a roof turret on one of the support vehicles:
https://www.guns.com/news/2011/07/16/the-dillon-m134d-gatling-gun-the-secret-services-secret-weapon
No doubt other stuff that isn't made public.
They have closed airspace around him and they have fighter jets that will come investigate aircraft getting close.
https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/restricted-airspace-0
I wouldn't be terribly surprised if, especially in this era of easy accessibility to drones, if they're also carrying some sort of surface-to-air weaponry, though I don't think I've ever read anything about it. They have electronic warfare vehicles in the convoy, though as can be seen in Ukraine, where Russia and Ukraine are both using drones that unspool fiber optic cable behind them as they fly to defeat jamming, jamming is not, alone, a full counter to drones.
Instead of using this new pathetic armoured golf cart, maybe Trump should use one of these cars as a golf cart.
It'd sink in a water hazard.
But he has multiple of them. So just use a spare!
It'd get graffitied, set on fire by protestors, and then sunk into a water hazard.
But luckily there's many more of them available! So pick another spare.
And would you look at that, now he has the strongest golf cart money can buy!
But look at that! He's got yuuuuge... tracts of driving ranges.
Pretty sure it has flares as well. They put everything they've got into it.
Air Force One does. I dunno about the ground motorcade, though.
And I'm sure that the E-4 does too.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-4