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The Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) in MultiCam, as issued to United States Army soldiers. A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, is a type of body armour designed to absorb impact and prevent the penetration of firearm projectiles and explosion fragments to the torso.
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 vest will stop lower velocity fragments and has removable neck, throat, shoulder, extended back and groin protection. Additionally, two ceramic plates may be added to the front and back of the vest, with each capable of stopping up to three hits from the round marked on the plate. For SAPI, this is a caliber of up to 7.62×51mm M80 FMJ.
Kevlar (para-aramid) [2] is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.Developed by Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965, [3] [2] [4] the high-strength material was first used commercially in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in racing tires.
Later, in 1971, the ZhZT-71 bulletproof vest was developed at NII Stali on the instructions of the technical department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. In that version of the body armor, plates were used from the most effective material at that time - OT4-1 titanium alloy. The ZhZT-71 body armor weighed about 12 kg and was not ...
Steel armor panel (level III protection, variant called 6B23-1) is 6.3 mm thick and made of “44S” steel providing protection against bullets from an AKM assault rifle with a heat-strengthened core (cartridge 57-N-231) from 10 m, an AK-74 rifle (cartridges 7N22, 7N24), M16 rifle (M193 and M855 cartridges) from 25 m, and SVD rifle (57-N-323S ...
“The first 16 years of this job, I didn't know a single elections official wearing a Kevlar vest. And now I know many of them." A woman watches ballot processing at the Washoe County (Nevada ...
Eastern armor has a long history, beginning in Ancient China. In East Asian history laminated armor such as lamellar, and styles similar to the coat of plates, and brigandine were commonly used. Later cuirasses and plates were also used. In pre-Qin dynasty times, leather armor was made out of rhinoceros.