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  2. Flak jacket - Wikipedia

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    It was claimed that the Marine's M-1951 flak jacket could stop a 90 gr (5.8 g) 7.62×25mm Tokarev pistol round at the muzzle of the gun. However, even the Vietnam era revised Flak jackets were not capable to stop high power or high velocity pistol rounds, much less an AK-47 rifle bullet ( 7.62×39mm ).

  3. Don Davis (gun retailer) - Wikipedia

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    Don Davis (April 10, 1933 – February 4, 2016) was an American gun retailer, the owner of Don's Guns and Galleries, a firearms retailer in Indianapolis, Indiana.He claimed to be the largest independent gun dealer in the United States, [1] and his store has been called the largest public display of firearms in America. [2]

  4. M-1952 Flak Jacket - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops - Wikipedia

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    Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT, pronounced / ˈ p æ z ɡ ə t / PAZ-gət) is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the early 1980s until the early or mid-2000s, when the helmet and vest were succeeded by the Lightweight Helmet (LWH), Modular Integrated Communications Helmet (MICH), and Interceptor body armor (IBA) respectively.

  6. Fragmentation (weaponry) - Wikipedia

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    Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc. are dispersed and/or shattered by the detonation of the explosive filler.

  7. Category:Military equipment introduced in the 1950s - Wikipedia

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    3-inch/70-caliber Mark 26 gun; 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 42 gun; 6B1 ballistic vest; 8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon; 55 S 55; Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun L/60; 58 pattern webbing; 85 mm anti-tank gun D-48; 95 S 58-61; 100 mm vz. 53; 120 mm BAT recoilless rifle; 130 mm air defense gun KS-30; 130 mm towed field gun M1954 (M-46) 152 mm gun-howitzer D ...

  8. 152 mm gun-howitzer D-20 - Wikipedia

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    The 152 mm gun-howitzer M1955, also known as the D-20, (Russian: 152-мм пушка-гаубица Д-20 обр. 1955 г.) is a manually loaded, towed 152 mm gun-howitzer artillery piece, manufactured in the Soviet Union during the 1950s. It was first observed by the West in 1955, at which time it was designated the M1955. Its GRAU index is 52 ...

  9. Category : Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1955

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