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Cadillac Gage Ranger


The Cadillac Gage Ranger is a four-wheeled armored personnel carrier produced by Cadillac Gage. It was built on a commercial truck chassis. The largest customer was the United States Air Force (where it was called the Peacekeeper, or P.K.), which at one time had over 700. It is also used by Luxembourg and Indonesia. The vehicle is no longer offered.

Rangers (Peacekeepers) were produced in the late 1970s through early 1980s on a shortened Dodge 200 or Dodge Ram pickup truck chassis, the same chassis as the CUCV. Many were subsequently sold to local police as SWAT vehicles. A newer version called the PeaceKeeper II was offered on a Ford F-350 chassis.

The US Army's military police used the Ranger as a heavy support and armored patrol vehicle.

The military police units of the United States Marine Corps also used the Ranger as a convoy vehicle. It was used in support of United States Navy Submarine-launched ballistic missiles and their warheads while in transit between storage facilities and the subs.

It had a crew of four: Fire team leader/driver, rifleman/assistant gunner/front passenger, M-60 gunner/left rear passenger, and grenadier/right rear passenger (the fire team leader and the rifleman could swap positions in the vehicle). The seating in the vehicle was two up front facing the front, one directly behind the driver and one in the rear of the vehicle; both of the members in the rear faced the opposite wall.

The vehicle had firing ports providing 270° coverage: one in the front center, one in each of the four doors (driver's, passenger's, and two rear), and one on each rear side. Each firing port except the one in front had an armored vision block above it. The driver and front passenger had large armored glass vision blocks for forward visibility and two smaller ones in the doors for views to the side. The two front (right door and left door) vision blocks (for driver and passenger) were larger than the rest.


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