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TAGS installed on the loader's M240 machine gun on top of M1A2 Abrams tank. (U.S. Army patrol in the city of Tall Afar, Iraq, on February 3, 2005.)TAGS on an M1A2 in Iraq. The Transparent Armor Gun shield, or TAGS, is a visually transparent protective gun shield built by BAE Systems made with ballistic glass for US military vehicle operators using mounted machine guns.
PM 1.22 Long Rifle: This armor would protect against three hits, fired from 10±0.5 meters, of: 2.6±0.1 g (40±1.54 gr) .22 Long Rifle lead round-nose bullets at a velocity of 360±10 m/s (1181±33 ft/s) PM 2 9×19mm Parabellum: This armor would protect against three hits, fired from 5±0.5 meters, of:
United States Marine Corps Military Police Special Reaction Team officers carrying ballistic shields during a training exercise. A ballistic shield, also called a tactical shield or bulletproof shield, is a protection device deployed by police, paramilitaries, and armed forces that are designed to stop or deflect bullets and other projectiles fired at their carrier.
The soft ballistic panels are produced in five different sizes (S-XXL), which are installed into their respective pocket on the OTV carrier shell. The Interceptor armor also has a PALS webbing grid on the front of the vest which accommodate the same type of pockets used in the modular lightweight load-carrying equipment ( MOLLE ) backpack/carry ...
The starting point for this development were the ballistic-only offerings of that time using NIJ Level 2A, 2, and 3A or HOSDB HG 1 and 2, with compliant ballistic vest products being manufactured with areal densities of between 5.5 and 6 kg/m 2 (1.1 and 1.2 lb/ft 2 or 18 and 20 oz/ft 2). However police forces were evaluating their "street ...
Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT, pronounced / ˈ p æ z ɡ ə t / PAZ-gət) is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the early 1980s until the early or mid-2000s, when the helmet and vest were succeeded by the Lightweight Helmet (LWH), Modular Integrated Communications Helmet (MICH), and Interceptor body armor (IBA) respectively.
The 8-pound Ceramic Upgrade Plates are fabricated of 2 in × 2 in (51 mm × 51 mm) aluminium oxide ceramic tiles. When the upgrade plates are inserted into the pockets of the vest, it protects an approximate 10 in × 12 in (250 mm × 300 mm) area from 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO full metal jacket rounds.
Eight gun-shields have been found on the wreck of the Mary Rose. They have been thought to be Italian in origin, as they were offered to Henry VIII in a letter of 1544 from a painter of Ravenna named Giovanbattista. [1] There are two distinct types of gun-shield: one of Italian manufacture and one an English version of heavier construction.