What’s that automobile with antennas on the PM’s workplace?

Hypothesis has been rife on Malaysian social media a few black Volvo XC90 seen driving into the Prime Minister’s workplace in Putrajaya after the latest orgy relating to the nation’s new Prime Minister. The car with blacked out home windows carries a civilian registration quantity and is supplied with an antenna farm on the roof rack together with a roof field.

Quite a few theories have been put ahead as to the perform of this car and we approached a supply to unravel this. Talking on situation of anonymity, our supply firstly mentioned, “that car belongs to the police, extra particularly the VIP safety element.”

“The car serves two capabilities. One, it’s a communications relay for the opposite autos within the convoy, carrying a number of excessive powered transmitters and normally working within the UHF and VHF bands,” our supply defined. “This permits`all of the autos within the convoy to tie into the identical comms web and talk with different stations on the identical web,” our supply added.

“One other major perform, apart from communications, is the car capabilities as a alerts jammer.” At this level our supply identified the knowledge he was telling us, whereas not precisely unavailable via open sources, is classed as as “Secret” in Malaysia.

“The alerts jamming is to forestall unhealthy guys from utilizing cell phones or RF (radio frequency) alerts to detonate bombs, or to forestall alerts going out to execute an ambush,” he mentioned. “That is frequent use for navy operations, particularly convoys. On this case, a civilian car is used for working in city areas.”

Our supply declined to present us the frequencies on which the machine operates however some have famous the lack of cell phone and different alerts because the car handed them by. So, there you will have, it’s a cell command submit, of kinds, particularly designed for prime worth goal car convoys working in a constructed up surroundings.