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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.
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That "armor" does not sound like it could stop more than small fragments of shrapnel that had already expended most of their kinetic energy.
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