PLA's Body Armor

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lazzydigger

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Link with pics showing Body armor used in training.

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This link shows the "guardian God" body armor used in grenade training sessions. It also did say that for some reason PLA didn't mass issue it.

In March 2004, during a grenade training, one solider's grenade slipped out of his hand. It was drop 3 cm away from him. He jump to shallow trench as it show in the pics, and survived blast. After check shows 2 hits on the armor. Luck for him.

happy reading.

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Lazzy digger
 
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PiSigma said:
the guy who blocked the machine gun entrance was called Huan Jiguang
the guy who blew up the bridge was called Dong Cunrui
the guy burned to death was called Qiu Shaoyun
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All of the Heros in PLA's history are worthy to be deeply remembered.
 
Gollevainen

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For fuk sake im getting really pissed...does all topics have to go of topic? :nono: oh no, not if it got something to do whit me...next one who i got up leading the discussion offtopic will get official warning and perhaps temporaly ban...understood?
 
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coolstorm

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rommel said:
wow, 1000$ ??? It's a little weird, it cost 540 CDN $ to buy a tactical level III CRISAT (kevlar + titanium) vest in canada on civilian market, why it would cost more for military that got better price than the civilian ?? (For exemple, the Beretta M9 cost 175 US to buy for the US Army and 350 to replace, but the civilian got to buy it at a minimun of 550 on legal market)

Well, the WWI vest was able to block a 7,92mm Mauser round, test prove that you can even put 250lb on the vest without causing respiratory problem to the soldier... The US have sufficient body armor, but that mean vest and flak jacket, some of the US unit are issued with flak jacket and the rest with vest, but we all know, flak jacket don't block bullets...
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that's because canada is relatively poor and has a lower living standards than the us. it costs over 10 dollars us for a fast-food meal in the us. in canada, it costs only around 5/6 dollars us.

it costs 2 dollars us to buy a soda in movie threater. in canada, it costs less than 1 dollar.
 
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ahho

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coolstorm said:
that's because canada is relatively poor and has a lower living standards than the us. it costs over 10 dollars us for a fast-food meal in the us. in canada, it costs only around 5/6 dollars us.

it costs 2 dollars us to buy a soda in movie threater. in canada, it costs less than 1 dollar.
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lower living standard?? i think that is called inflation in the US.


as for kelvar $1000 seems a little too pricy
 
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ahho said:
lower living standard?? i think that is called inflation in the US.


as for kelvar $1000 seems a little too pricy
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agree, the inflation rate is much higher in the US than in Canada. The inflation rate is of 2.5% in the USA while it's 1.9% (a healthy inflation rate should be between 1.0% and 2.0%) BTW, check the USA external debt... it's about 1,9 trillion while it's "only" 570 billion for Canada...

still, we are drifting off topic, get back in line !!!!!
 
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ahho

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hey rommel do you know how much does it cost to buy the different levels of kelvar in canada for military and police force??
 
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Undead Yogurt

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So... it's almost a year later... is there now a consensus on the body armor situation? Is it: marines, paratroopers, special ops are equipped w/ Kevlar, while regular infantry still do without?
 
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