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A flak jacket or flak vest is a form of body armor. A flak jacket is designed to provide protection from case fragments ("frag") from high explosive weaponry, such as anti-aircraft artillery ("flak" is a German contraction for Fliegerabwehrkanone , "aircraft-defense gun"), grenade fragments , very small pellets used in shotguns such as the ...
He played college football at Santa Clara University and received second-team honors on the 1970 Little All-America college football team. [1]Pastorini also played college baseball and was drafted straight out of high school by the New York Mets in the 32nd round of 1967 MLB draft (599 overall) [2] along with future Saints quarterback Archie Manning, but ultimately decided to play football.
Football players wear a number of pads to protect themselves – shoulder pads are the most important pads, protecting the shoulder and sternum, but thigh pads, hip pads, tail pads, and knee pads are also used. Many quarterbacks wear rib protectors (nicknamed "flak jackets" for their resemblance to that form of body armor) to protect their ribcage.
The M-1952 Flak vest, or "Armor, Body, Fragmentation, Protective, Vest Type, M-52" was a flak vest designed for the United States Marine Corps during the Korean war. Following the joint US Army and Marine Corps designed M51 Flak Jacket , the M-52 used aluminum plates instead of Doron .
Flak Jacket – Antiquated term for ballistic vest or body armor. Flak and Kevlar – Used when referring to body armor and a helmet respectively (the standard US Military issued helmet is made out of kevlar). Flipside - The more positive perspective aspect of a given situation. Float – Deployment aboard ship.
"Flak", a class of the Propaganda model advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky; Flak, "flat land" or "flat sandbank", a component of Germanic language area place names, e.g. Flakfortet; Flak jacket, protective clothing worn by soldiers and others to protect themselves from debris and shrapnel
The IBA system consists of an Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) and two Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI) ballistic plates. The OTV features a carrier shell, and three main (flexible) ballistic panel inserts (front left and front right panels, and a rear back panel), [4] which are made with a finely woven Kevlar KM2 fiber.
Gridiron football players wear various pieces of equipment for the protection of the body during the course of a football game. Basic equipment worn by most football players include a helmet, shoulder pads, gloves, shoes, and thigh and knee pads, a mouthguard, and a jockstrap or compression shorts with or without a protective cup.