S.W.A.T.
Special Weapons and Tactics Team
U.S.A.



SWAT Team’s primary mission is to respond to incidents such as barricaded persons or hostage situations, serves high risk warrants and provides dignitary protection that would require the special skills and training of the team.

There are numerous SWAT teams throughout America who would respond to any situation which their repective police force could not handle,ensuring the safety of the citizens.

SWAT officers train on the average of eight hours per month and must be on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The training consists of building searches, warrant service, hostage rescue tactics, bus and vehicle assaults, open field search, downed officer rescue, narcotics buy/bust operations and crowd control.

The selective fire H&K MP5A2/A3 submachine gun is the primary entry weapon. The snipers are assigned a Remington 700 BDL .308 rifle as the primary long gun. Each sniper also carries a selective fire H&K model 53 .223 machine gun. But note that different state's SWAT team could deploy other types of weapons of their chioce.




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