Steel Vest

Sounds pretty wild, wonder what type steel they use to forge those. I've got a kevlar vest with ceramic plates that go in the front and back. Don't know what all it'll stop, but it does a great job of slowing me down.

Sarge
 
Don't know if you watch Mail Call but R Lee Ermey nailed one of those vests with an AK74 and it held up just fine.
 
Hey Sarge,

Originally posted by Sylvrfalcn
Sounds pretty wild, wonder what type steel they use to forge those. I've got a kevlar vest with ceramic plates that go in the front and back. Don't know what all it'll stop, but it does a great job of slowing me down.

Sarge
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A standard-issue "Flak-Jacket" is designed to stop Low-Powered Rifle rounds such as .22 LR, High Powered Handgun rounds such as .45 ACP, .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, 9mm Para, Shotgun and grenade blasts... With plates, even High-Powered Rifle rounds such as .223 and .30-06 can be stopped, provided that a trauma pad has been included.....
 
Thanks for all the info guys. A soldier in Afghanistan got shot shortly before I got over there. Took an AK round through the ribs in an area the "chicken plates" don't cover. He's not with us anymore. Body armor helps, but it by no means makes a fellow bullet proof. I defer to a line from the old Norse text Havamal that Keith is fond of quoting. It goes; "better gear than good sense, a traveller cannot carry".;)

Sarge
 
Originally posted by Sylvrfalcn
Thanks for all the info guys. A soldier in Afghanistan got shot shortly before I got over there. Took an AK round through the ribs in an area the "chicken plates" don't cover. He's not with us anymore. Body armor helps, but it by no means makes a fellow bullet proof. I defer to a line from the old Norse text Havamal that Keith is fond of quoting. It goes; "better gear than good sense, a traveller cannot carry".;)

Sarge
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That is to bad he did not make it! A sad storie and a brave soldier. I hear that gut shots can be the worst kind.

In the movie "Three kings" the scean where the soldier gets shot and the camera followed the bullet into the body and showed the wound fill with bile was very intense. Made me cringe!
 
Skeletor, was it the Steel Vest or Kevlar on Mail Call? I also posted on Training & Tactics they have some good insight's on this. I would think that the heat retention would be real bad and the Glow Bug effect on Infared /Magnetic signeture would make you a Really Big Target.:eek:
 
i found the info about the kevlar armour a bit worrying.
it states that another round striking within 2inches of a previous round would penetrate. hope the enemies usein single shot rifles. eek
i suppose when you think about it it would be unlikely that two bullets would hit that close to each other. lets hope anyway for our guys sakes.:( :)
 
Saw on a show about kevlar that a second hit close to the first hit on the armor allows the bullet to penetrate the armor, as the kevlar has already been compressed in that area. Think of our troops that use 3 round burst fire or double taps. Then again, if you are hit with the first round it will probably knock you off your feet so fast that the second round wouldn't hit the same spot. Much better not to get shot at all.
 
Mail Call tested out the kevlar vest. First an old Vietnam flak jacket was tested, this of course didn't stop the AK round. A modern kevlar vest was then hung on a tree and shot with a single round from fairly close range, the bullet didn't get through the front of the jacket. The ceramic plates that can be put in were also mentioned. What I'm wondering is how heavy the modern kevlar vests are compared to that metal body armor.
 
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