History Main / VulnerableConvoy

* TruthInTelevision. In war, convoys are one of the favorite targets of guerrilla fighters, especially supply convoys. For a while, the most dangerous job in Iraq was military truck driver.

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* The first episode of the ''GIJoe'' five-parter "Revenge of Cobra" opens with the Joes transporting a high-tech device, and a Cobra strike force attacking the convoy and making off with it (along with Duke and Snake Eyes).

* The first chapter of ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'' has [[FarEastAsianTerrorists East Asian Liberation Front leader Kim Kanth]] being transported in an armored car with police escort. EALF terrorists promptly ambush the convoy and break him out of the wagon. They don't get far after [[MagicalGirlWarrior Asuka]] appears on the scene.

* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': The "Apokolips Express" kicks off when oracle gets a tip-off that there is a planned breakout from a train transporting metahuman prisoners to [[TheAlcatraz The Slab]]. The breakout happens... by teleporting the train to another planet!

* John Frankenheimer's ''The Train'' centers around a German train carrying French art treasures, and the efforts of the [[LaResistance French Resistance]] to stop it.

* ''The Soldier'' (1982). {{Renegade Russian}}s attack a convoy transporting nuclear material, to make an atomic bomb.

* ''The Soldier'' (1982). RenagadeRussian KGB attack a convoy transporting nuclear material, to make an atomic bomb.

* The bumbling protagonists of ''La Vengeance du serpent à plumes'' are arrested due to being mistaken for members of the terror gang (DressingAsTheEnemy as its risks). As they're driven to prison along with members of a drug cartel, the convoy is attacked by the rest of the cartel and the prisoners broken out. [[spoiler:Then those "killed in the attack" [[TrickAndFollowPloy get up and congratulate each other]]...]]

* The Green Bridge mission in ''[[PaydayTheHeist PAYDAY: The Heist]]'' has the crew breaking a prisoner out of a prison transport moving in a convoy. The mission starts after the crew destroys part of the bridge, stopping the convoy and allowing them to move in and saw open the doors of the four transport vans, one of which holds the prisoner they are trying to free.

* ''Film/MrAndMrsSmith'' - The first cracks in the titular title's relationships happen when they [[spoiler:both try to take out the same target, someone being transported via convoy]], except it turns out [[spoiler:it's actually a ContractOnTheHitman]].

* In the SNES version of the ''Manga/{{Area 88}}'' shoot-em-up game (''UN Squadron'' Stateside), enemy supply convoys are a source of easy money (and extra lives for the patient).

* In ''{{Numb3rs}}'', Colby escapes his convoy with his cuff partner ridiculously easily. [[spoiler:Is it really that easy to smuggle a key in and shoot your guard? Really?]]

* ''ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey'': The "Apokolips Express" kicks off when oracle gets a tip-off that there is a planned breakout from a train transporting meathuman prisoners to [[TheAlcatraz The Slab]]. The breakout happens... by teleporting the train to another planet!

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* In ''{{Numb3rs}}'', Colby escapes his convoy with his cuff partner ridiculously easily. [[spoiler:Is it really that easy to smuggle a key in and shoot your guard? Really?]]
* ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'':
** At the end of season 5, this is how [[spoiler:Bierko]] escapes. Also at the end of season 8, the ambulance convoy carrying [[spoiler:Jack Bauer]], who was shot, gets attacked by a team sent to drag him to a remote area to execute him.
** ''24'' uses it straight but also [[DoubleSubversion double subverts]] it during Season 8. Jack sends an ambulance carrying a captured villain to an hospital for treatment and interrogation, expecting that the villain's business partners will attack it to kill him and prevent him from talking to CTU. Unknown to them the villain is already dead and the ambulance is sent as a mobile bait. However, thinking that they are safer attacking the hospital once the villain is carried there, the partners leave the ambulance alone.
* Done in an early episode of ''Series/TheShield'', with a van transporting evidence rather than one transporting prisoners. The catch: the attackers are none other than [[spoiler:the [[CorruptCop Strike Team]], launching a last ditch effort to get rid of evidence ''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero they planted]]'' that would've sent an innocent man to jail.]]
* In one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'', they set up a prisoner transport with a decoy prisoner in order to catch a contract killer. [[spoiler:The cops are forced to shoot the killer before they can capture him.]]
* Several ''Series/DoctorWho'' stories have attacks on UNIT convoys, usually transporting dangerous technology, including "The Ambassadors of Death" (space capsule containing alien visitors), "The Mind of Evil" (decommissioned nuclear missile), and "The Time Monster" (reinforcements). In "Battlefield", for a change, the convoy (transporting another decommissioned nuclear missile) just gets bogged down due to bad weather -- and ''then'' the villains discover it and attack.
* An episode of ''Series/ThePretender'' starts with a news report of this, which kidnapped the key witness in a mafia trial. The attack was planned by Jarod himself, who was told the aim was to rescue prisoners in a war.
* On ''Series/StrikeBack'' Stonebridge and Scott are escorting a van transporting a prisoner when the van is blown up. [[spoiler:They were GenreSavvy enough to put the prisoner in the trunk of their car instead]]
* This is used multiple times on ''Series/BurnNotice'' though it is usually subverted. In one episode the team attacks a prisoner transport van to free a gangster's brother but the van and the guards are fake and they are trying to trick the gangster into releasing the hostage he is holding. Another time Micheal pretends to be a fellow prisoner that helps a mobster escape during transport so the mobster can lead them to where his boss is hiding.
* ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': In "Harvey Dent", the Russians break Ian Hargrove out of custody by attacking the van being used to transport him from Blackgate to St. Mark's Psychiatric Hospital.
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* In ''VideoGame/FarCry2'', the weapons dealers ask the player to destroy convoys driven by their business rivals so that news weapons are unlocked. Strangely, the convoys never actually go anywhere, as they are alway endlessly driving around in a circle.

* Likewise at sea, especially during WorldWarII and anywhere that there were pirates. After several years of the military refusing consider the EscortMission, it finally became clear that it was necessary. As such, there were entire classes of ships that were designed to be "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escort_aircraft_carrier escorts]]". These tended to be built on the ZergRush principle: small and cheap individually, but meant to match U-boat "wolfpack" submarines one on one or surround and delay dreadnoughts until the convoy could get out of range. Of course, serving in one was the classic EscortMission: not only were you escorting not one but a flock of merchant ships that couldn't take a hit and were likely to do something panicky and stupid when the shooting started, but you were doing it in a ship that was pathetically underpowered and undergunned compared to what you thought you were signing up for.

* ''Film/MissionImpossible III'': the big bad has just been arrested, so naturally his convoy is attacked and he gets away.