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7/12/2025, 9:00:06 AM
>>63971918
>>63972533
In comparison the US had the variable body armor plates and deployed/used them in vietnam 1967. And we also have a video of someone shooting it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z7NJBqPVBM
tldr
>7.62x39 lead and steel core fail to pen less then 10 meters
>5.56x45 ss109 and m855 fail to pen less then 10 meters
>Only 7.62x54r steel core fired from mosin pens
https://www.vietnamgear.com/kit.aspx?kit=31
>42,000 vests were ordered
>28,000 sets of the VBA had been sent to Vietnam by the start of 1970
>remaining 14,500 vests was canceled in February 1970
The US had a design that could almost do the same thing as 6b3/6b4/6b4 vest with 13mm boron plates almost 15 years ahead of the USSR. In another timeline the US would have made rifle rated body armor standard for its army in fucking 1970 while ruskies were still running around with AKM and if they upgrade to the AK-74 they still wont pen US body armor even at point blank range unless they use a PKM or SVD.
>>63972533
In comparison the US had the variable body armor plates and deployed/used them in vietnam 1967. And we also have a video of someone shooting it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z7NJBqPVBM
tldr
>7.62x39 lead and steel core fail to pen less then 10 meters
>5.56x45 ss109 and m855 fail to pen less then 10 meters
>Only 7.62x54r steel core fired from mosin pens
https://www.vietnamgear.com/kit.aspx?kit=31
>42,000 vests were ordered
>28,000 sets of the VBA had been sent to Vietnam by the start of 1970
>remaining 14,500 vests was canceled in February 1970
The US had a design that could almost do the same thing as 6b3/6b4/6b4 vest with 13mm boron plates almost 15 years ahead of the USSR. In another timeline the US would have made rifle rated body armor standard for its army in fucking 1970 while ruskies were still running around with AKM and if they upgrade to the AK-74 they still wont pen US body armor even at point blank range unless they use a PKM or SVD.
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