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More info on the Transporter. They tested it using rockets fire another transport truck at it.

https://www.twz.com/37156/new-nuke-transporting-tractor-trai...

https://www.twz.com/14253/the-us-moves-nukes-in-booby-trappe...

> typically escorted by three dark colored Chevrolet Suburbans

Why the fetish for this particular vehicle, even when anonymity is at a premium?

Largest American-made passenger vehicle that still fits in a regular lane width. You could use a short schoolbus or something, like a SWAT team, but they're less comfortable :)

Also more conspicuous. Suburbans are common enough that nobody would think twice about seeing 3 on the road in close proximity. Three short schoolbuses would be weird.

Three black suburbans in a row are definitely very conspicuous.

Even bigger than my Yukon Denali XL by .5 inches despite having the identical frame.

Lot lizards will have a bad day if they proposition that truck!