army issuses new body protection.....
04-05-2007, 06:26 PM
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army issuses new body protection.....
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My wife’s uncle works in a military hospital and told me about this. Its pretty amazing. Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.
The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound.
thought that this was pretty crazy...
Ipod>insurgents
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4...c6bd59bum1.jpg
Taken from another board.
My wife’s uncle works in a military hospital and told me about this. Its pretty amazing. Kevin Garrad (3rd Infantry Division) was on a street patrol in Iraq (Tikrit I believe) and as he rounded the corner of a building an armed (AK-47) insurgent came from the other side.
The two of them were within just a few feet of each other when they opened fire. The insurgent was killed and Kevin was hit in the left chest where his IPod was in his jacket pocket. It slowed the bullet down enough that it did not completely penetrate his body armor. Fortunately, Kevin suffered no wound.
thought that this was pretty crazy...
Ipod>insurgents
04-05-2007, 06:48 PM
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Re: army issuses new body protection.....
thats ------- amazing, its prob.ly some crap gun they are using anyway coz i saw a video where they were trying to use a bunch of ---- that fits into your pocket to slow down the bullet from a AK47 or somthing, and needless to say none works lol
he pro.bly prays every ------- day now
BTW they might be using some CDM gun
he pro.bly prays every ------- day now
BTW they might be using some CDM gun
04-05-2007, 09:06 PM
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Re: army issuses new body protection.....
Originally Posted by scottsi
lucky that arab wasnt using a fmj, he woulda been dead and so would the guy standing behind him
there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
04-05-2007, 09:44 PM
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Re: army issuses new body protection.....
Originally Posted by random-strike
lol...
there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
04-05-2007, 10:05 PM
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Re: army issuses new body protection.....
Originally Posted by scottsi
lucky that arab wasnt using a fmj, he woulda been dead and so would the guy standing behind him
The AK uses the 7.62x39 round. That ---- is WEAK *** round. It is waaaay slower and has only slightly more energy than the M16s 223 round.
A real round is the 6.5 Grendel. That ---- is as fast as the 223, but packs almost twice the energy. Low recoil and nice ballistics. No iPOD is gonna stop that round.
Plus, now that Wolf has started making the Grendel round, you can get it for cheap.
Originally Posted by random-strike
lol...
there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
there is about 99% chance that bullet was fully jacketed. not many armies issue hollow point rifle rounds....
