This is our core skills flagship course for vehicles.
Fighting in and Around Vehicles focuses on skills necessary to react positively when simply driving out of high-risk conditions is impractical or denied. Because of the pace and mobile nature of this course, there is a large emphasis both on combat skills and safety.

Course Content

• Weapon handling skills for combat
• Vehicle terminal ballistics
• Solo and two-man drills inside and outside vehicles
• Vehicle gunfighting concepts and force-on-force exercises
• Live fire drills

Handgun hold-ups and edged weapon attacks while you are in or around your vehicle create a dynamic and stressful scenario.

Course Content

• Responding to Hi-Jacking threats
• Understanding and dominating the vehicle space and doorways
• Dealing with empty hand attacks
• Dealing with edged weapon attacks
• Recognizing when disarms are possible
• Creating opportunities to achieve disarms.
• Creating opportunities to access and use your sidearm

This course covers the key aspects of mobile vehicle engagements while achieving the balance of the advantages of staying mobile and being able to direct fire at your enemy.

Course contents

• Understanding mobile vehicle ambushes
• Key counter-ambush driving skills
• Dealing with mobile attackers (other moving vehicles)
• Bypassing or ramming barriers
• Approaches to assist assets or team members under attack (driving toward ambushes in progress)

Approaching a vehicle is a dangerous exercise. In this course, we focus on safety and command presence for approaching and or interacting with drivers and passengers of a stopped vehicle.

Course Content

• Vehicle positioning in relation to “suspect” vehicle
• Use of patrol vehicle for stand-off management of driver and passenger
• Dynamic approaches
• Two- and three-man vehicle approach- roles and formations for driver and passenger management
• Vehicle searches

Escorting vehicles comes with a broad range of challenges specific to the type of vehicle being escorted, type of goods being escorted, resources, and escort vehicles being used.

Course Content

• Planning and briefings
• Communications
• Role/s of escort and reaction teams
• Weapon selection and use in various scenarios
• Planning and performing handovers and securing vehicles at destinations or depots
• Escort formations and driving skills for different vehicle platforms