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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
In the 1983, in Basic, we were shown a Soviet body armor vest that was basically canvas with fiberglass-stiffened cotton with additional pockets for additional fiberglass/cotton or plates. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get more than a cursory look at it. The "Soviet" advisor teaching us said it was captured in Angola a few years before that.
(I say "Soviet" because I don't believe he was really Soviet.)
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That may have been a stripped-out set of 6B1 body armour from 1957, I didn't include it as it seems to have been rare (the
mashka helmets got excluded for the same reason).
Here's a link on that, it could be good for an early game set in the sixties.