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"Even in a gunfight, we'd just get our asses kicked by the simplest rifles."
Russian soldiers posted a video testing the "unparalleled" bulletproof vest "Module-Monolith," produced by JSC "Special Materials Research Institute" (St. Petersburg). During the experiment, all five bullets penetrated the armor plate completely. The soldiers expressed their dissatisfaction with the quality of the heavy and useless gear: "Just f*cking great. Thank you, Ministry of Defense."
Maybe I just don't know how bulletproof vests work, but shouldn't there be some layers of energy dispersing material on top of that plate?
Is it a fair comparison without?
The plate should work on its own. The thing that stands out to me is there's not even deformation. None of the impact is being caught and spread out. Just perfect holes. So yeah. Well outside the envelope for where the kevlar shell would have made a difference.
By the sounds of it they just used sheet metal lol
Yup. Just classic Russian corruption where there's something in the inventory. Just not what it's supposed to be.
Interesting, I learnt something new today.
Seems delightfully medieval as a solution. What does the Kevlar do? Mostly anti-spalling?
Stops shrapnel, pistol rounds, and spalling.
You might be thinking of the anti-spalling coating on the front. Not exactly required but helpful.
That layer traps the prices of the splattered bullet after it impacts the plate. Without it those pieces can hit your chin or arms.
OR you're thinking of ceramic plates? Ceramic breaks up the bullet while the Kevlar behind it catches the slowed and broken pieces.
That's probably exactly what I was thinking of.
I mostly see them in US media, and they always seem so thick. But then again, the Russian vest doesn't, so I guess they're for different uses.
At least for steel plate, it should work without any supporting material.
Kevlar around it would help catch spalling from a bullet flattening out and spraying little bits of shrapnel out across the surface, but since these ones aren't actually stopping the bullets, there is no spalling to catch.