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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 ...
Body armor Russia: Serial production launched in early 2023. A large contract was signed with the Defense Ministry in June 2024 for a modernized version. [390] Supplies of the Oberig-S sapper's armor begun in June 2024. [391] 6Sh117: Load bearing vest Russia: Introduced as part of the Ratnik infantry combat system. [389] 6B47 [388] Combat ...
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 ...
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.
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. [2]
It consists of a front and rear main parts connected at the shoulders and sides; armor pockets on the sides provide for the installation of additional armor plates. The body armor is connected to a belt, which helps redistribute the load from the shoulders. When equipped with GOST class 5 armor plates, the total weight is 12.2 kg. [6] [7]
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.