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Soft Armor Fragmentation 9×19mm FMJ: US Army soft armor inserts adhere to standards specified under FQ/PD 07–05. [18] They are required to stop the following ballistic and fragmentation threats: 2-grain (0.13 g) RCC (Right Circular Cylinder) at a velocity (V 50) of 2,710-foot-per-second (830 m/s) when dry and 2,575-foot-per-second (785 m/s ...
Steel armor panel (level III protection, variant called 6B23-1) is 6.3 mm thick and made of “44S” steel providing protection against bullets from an AKM assault rifle with a heat-strengthened core (cartridge 57-N-231) from 10 m, an AK-74 rifle (cartridges 7N22, 7N24), M16 rifle (M193 and M855 cartridges) from 25 m, and SVD rifle (57-N-323S ...
Steel breastplate, or Stalnoi Nagrudnik (Russian: Стальной нагрудник) is a type of body armor similar to a cuirass developed by the Red Army in World War II. The native Cyrillic abbreviation for the vest was "СН", the Cyrillic letters Es and En. It consisted of two pressed steel plates that protected the front torso and groin.
Body armor standards in the Russian Federation, as established in GOST R 50744-95, differ significantly from American standards, on account of a different security situation. The 7.62×25mm Tokarev round is a relatively common threat in Russia and is known to be able to penetrate NIJ IIIA soft armor. [ 57 ]
'Visor') is a series of ballistic vests created for the Russian Armed Forces under the supervision of GRAU for inclusion in the basic set of personal equipment "Barmitsa". They were intended as a replacement for the Soviet ballistic vests 6B3, 6B4 and 6B5. The Zabralo armors was a major advance for Russian armor development due to its design.
6B5 (Russian: 6Б5), is a bulletproof vest family created for the Soviet Armed Forces by NII Stali. The 6B5 was designed as a replacement for previous 6B3 and 6B4 body armour. History
6B3 (Russian: 6Б3) is a ballistic vest of the Soviet Armed Forces.It was the first widely issued and mass produced ballistic vest rated to stop assault rifle rounds. It was created by NII Stali after Soviet troops in Afghanistan noted the lack of protection against rifle rounds that the 6B2 ballistic vest provided.
In 2008-2009, on instructions from the Russian Ministry of Defence, Techinkom developed an assault body armor vest 6B43, which successfully passed state tests and was mass-produced until 2014. In 2012, the company joined the work on the Ratnik program and in 2015, the 6B45 combined arms body armor was adopted as standard armor.