Thread 64211754

metal body armor is the future
>but spalling
pic related
Get with on the times boomer

>>64211754 (OP)
If there's one thing soldiers love it's carry around more, heavier shit.

>>64211765
that is surprisingly light though
t. tried out a full of suit of armor like that

>>64211765
That much weight in body armor won't do jack shit against rifles outside of a helmet/carrier's surface area

>>64211769
a full kevlar body armor would be slightly lighter than a full metal suit. The problem of weight is not the armor but the backpack specially because it is not distributed through the body like armor is

>>64211773
before full metal armor people also wore mail in less important areas. Apply the same idea to modern weapons and wear less protection in arms and legs

>>64211784
Will you have an active cooling system or just accept the reduction in mobility/increase in heat stroke?

>>64211754 (OP)
Steel armor is heavier for the level of ballistic protection it provides (against certain threat profiles) than aluminum and polymers/composites.
Also, metal armor would get a fairer shake if they actually implemented features to reduce or prevent fatal spalling injury, like composite liners and flared rims around plates to catch spalling. FFS the latter was well known historically and a nearly universal feature on medieval-early modern plate armor, yet the concepts we see get shilled nowadays look like they're deliberately designed to send shrapnel into your arms and neck.

>>64211795
you are 300lb are you not

>>64211819
I was referring to having armor sleeves making you hot as fuck

>>64211819
>only fat people sweat
you are one grumpy teenager

>>64211754 (OP)
Why don’t you wear all that shit on a hot summer day and run half a mile and report back to us

>>64211754 (OP)
Pic related what you newfag homo? A small thumbnail?

>>64216064
>he cant read file names
lurk moar newfag

>>64211754 (OP)
The future is that infantry will be sent into combat as an absolute last resort. There's so much deadly shit flying around and it's only going to get worse. I'd rather be wearing something that keeps me concealed anyway.

>>64211819
What a wild self-own