(James Bond theme music)
- [Reporter] Where's the button for the missiles
that shoot out at the other cars?
Is there one of those?
- Yeah, it's just right here.
- Right now I am sitting in a Land Rover.
This car is probably in the neighborhood
of $150,000 for the car.
But, maybe what you don't know,
and what you're about to see in this video
is this video is all about bulletproofing cars.
This Land Rover is fully bulletproof.
Now, not all bulletproofing is equal.
There are different levels of bulletproofing,
and so, hopefully, you can learn
a little bit about that today as I learn about it,
and we're going to see some cool stuff.
This is a Kevlar blanket right here on top of the car.
Check out this car.
It looks like, honestly, what I would say
a piece of garbage, like, it's all torn apart.
Look at the inside of it.
In one week, this car that is all torn apart
will look just like this car right here,
'cuz this is the exact same kind of car,
and a week ago it was in the same state.
There are four of these Toyota Land Cruisers.
Right now I'm in a little town of Ogden, Utah,
at a company named Armormax.
They invited me in to just check out their shop today,
learn a little bit about bulletproofing,
and I said, "Heck, yes, I want to see this and learn it."
And then our friend Zach is going to shoot some glass later
and kind of show us what bulletproofing
does and how it works.
This company Armormax is the leader
in bulletproofing of cars for the entire world.
These four cars specifically are going to the Middle East
to somebody very, very high profile.
This right here is thick enough to withstand
up to five bullets from an AR-15.
They've tested it up to 20 and its been functional,
but they will guarantee up to five,
and then this plate right here covers the back.
Underneath the car they have protection.
Even on the top of the car they have protection.
- So what we've done is we've put a box
that has about 20 or so tacks.
The concept behind it is when the car is traveling,
these tacks will be, you know you're going 40 miles an hour,
and these will be dispersed and these tacks will be ...
- [Reporter] This is real world.
This isn't, like, for some movie or something.
- This is real world, yeah.
These can deflate any tire.
So if you have a chaser, an attacker,
these tacks will scare it off.
- [Reporter] Unless you have run flat tires.
- Unless you have run flat tires.
- Okay guys, so a few minutes ago,
Zach was trying to prank me,
and he almost got me, somehow I remembered last second,
'cuz Zach, I could see it in his eyes,
(laughs) he's not the best poker player.
Where's the button for the missiles
that shoot out at the other cars?
Is there one of those?
- Yeah, it's just right here.
(movie music) (explosions)
So, here's kinda where we just activate --
- [Reporter] These are the buttons.
Which buttons do what here?
- So, they were labeled earlier.
I'm assuming this is the tack dispenser.
- [Reporter] You already learned that.
- Yeah, I already learned that.
These two are for the smokescreen,
this is for the smokescreen.
This is for the electrified door handles, right here.
So, if I hit that, the electrified door handles are active.
- [Reporter] Why is it so close to the hazard,
and, like, the lights and stuff?
Like, 'cuz I feel like sombody's gonna be driving down,
we're gonna, some report, like, some guy's
drivin' through Dubai, and all of a sudden
he accidentally hits the wrong button,
and there's tacks on the road,
and he sees Ferraris and Lamborghinis just,
have you ever had that happen?
- Yeah, that's what keeps us up at night.
We haven't had that happen, but, yeah.
- [Man] That's crazy.
- [Reporter] Or the gas comes out.
- [Man] Oh, my gosh.
So, we don't know what kind of gas,
he knows, but it's top secret what comes out.
There are certain things that I'm sure for the camera
that we're not even gonna show you that this car does
because this is goin' to people
that are very high up in the world's, I don't know.
This is going to people that may be public figures
or billionaires.
People that have a target on their back possibly
from the wrong crowd,
and so we're gonna keep a few of the things secret
but these guys, here at Armormax,
it's pretty amazing what they do to these cars.
This is like James Bond.
- [Q] Magnificent, isn't she?
- [Reporter] We saw all the cars, we saw the trucks.
We saw how the bulletproofing works,
but now I kinda wanna see real life what it looks like.
So, we have a few things.
Tryin' to find 'em, oh, here we go.
Right here, we got some groceries.
These are cantaloupes.
These are melons, those kind of things,
and we have the glass down there.
Here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna use the melons to put it behind the glass
on the other side, so that when we shoot
at the glass, we can see how protected it is.
You probably have seen that funny video
where the President's motorcade tried to go over
and it got totally stuck.
(crowd cheers)
I thought that video was awesome.
If you notice when they open the door
and I'll put the B-roll of it right here,
you can see that the door is super, super thick.
Well, look at this glass right here.
This is the same type of glass that the President
would have in his car except they double it up
so it's a double the thickness
just to have added protection,
so that car is really, really heavy.
The same guys here at Armorex, they recently just took
a Tesla Model S, and they retrofitted it
so it was completely bulletproof,
and that made the car go from around 4,800 pounds
up to around 5,400 pounds.
The car gained about 500 pounds in weight,
so your drag racing time is definitely gonna lose
just a little bit,
but for the people that wanted that car in the Middle East
it's worth it for them to have
that little bit of protection.
So, pretty cool how all this stuff works.
Let's see it in action.
We have a slo-mo camera here,
slo-mo camera here which is an iPhone.
Zach did not wanna sacrifice his Galaxy.
Why not?
Why didn't, is Android not good enough?
- I have to put the phone there that I care least about.
(crowd yells)
- [Reporter] Last time feeling it.
Here's the melon.
The watermelon.
Can we protect the watermelon?
If it's good enough for a melon
it's good enough for my melon.
(laughs)
- Alright, so the safety is now off
and full disclosure, I have not sighted this gun,
so if I miss this first shot,
I'm just s'posed to shoot.
(gunshot)
Oh, wow.
- [Man] Did you just get hit with the shell?
- I did, I did, it got me.
It was good though.
- [Man] That's why you have safeties, right?
- He hits it right in the middle of the glass,
look at that.
Bam, it doesn't get any better than that.
Nice job. - What can I say?
- [Reporter] Luck, beginner's luck.
- [Reporter] Look at the glass.
Look at that, nothin', nothin'.
The melon is safe.
Wow, this is how thick?
- An inch and a half thick.
- [Reporter] How many bullets do you think it could take
before it's just, like, gets through it.
- We've tested around 20, 25 on something like this.
But it's certified to take five rounds.
- [Reporter] Certified five, okay.
- But I think it can hold about 25.
- Never been to an indoor gun range before.
This looks like art over here.
Look at this.
Look, this is all shots from the bullets
and then down here this is all pieces of bullets.
Look at that, look right there.
That's a bullet.
Big, old, thick pieces of metal.
What is this?
What even is this?
Alright, there's a little behind the scenes.
If you haven't seen Zach's video,
he goes in-depth, the science, everything behind
the bulletproof glass and how it works.
You'll have to check it out.
I'll put a link at the end of this video,
but it's been a fun day.
This has been really cool,
and I have definitely have learned a lot,
so, letting me know if you wanna learn more about
bulletproof cars and different things.
I know we talked about it earlier today but they maybe,
they're gonna be getting new cars in all the time
that, with different thickness
and different things that they're doing.
I just gotta convince 'em to do a President's car.
When are you gonna do President Trump's cars?
Or whatever the next President is?
C'mon.
- That's classified.
- All I know is I'm bleeding out of my finger right now.