Armed with Hellfire missiles they can destroy armoured vehicles and teams of IS fighters from a height of thousands of feet.
Outside the G20 convention centre, thousands of anti-globalisation demonstrators gathered for a second day, under the gaze of a huge contingent of riot police, a Swat team and armoured vehicles.
Illuminated only by the headlights of a nearby car, the candidate standing for a seat in Pakistan's parliament made a brief speech to the hundred or so supporters mustered at short notice, before being ushered back to his armoured car by a team of bodyguards wearing white bulletproof vests over their white cotton shalwar kameez.
The operation involving Swat teams and armoured cars with helicopter support began soon after 9pm.
In Mozambique – which was heavily mined during the independence struggle and the country's subsequent 15-year civil war – Apopo's rats, handlers, manual demining teams and armoured vehicles have so far found and destroyed more than 13,000 landmines, reclaiming more than 11 million square metres (1,100 hectares) of land.
In 1996 the Daily Mirror sent an armoured car to the German team hotel in London.
Followed less than two days later by the sight of a Swat team in an armoured car staking out a house, which ended with the homeowner's suicide?
They have a Swat team, they have armoured carriers, they have the proper weapons, they have the proper training and citizens showing up and shooting back would probably get in the way.
He was serving in the Cheshire Regiment in Northern Ireland when the armoured vehicle he and his team were travelling in overturned on the last week of his tour.
Sometimes SWAT docs stay behind in armoured vehicles, but often, especially on smaller teams, they enter with the rest of the team.
