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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 . Nevertheless the Army's and Marine's Flak vests did a ...
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 .
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.
The M-1951 field jacket was based on the M-1943 field jacket. [2] The M-1951 was given snap fasteners instead of buttons and an aluminium zipper.Earlier issue M-1951s had larger, brown buttons like on the M-1943, and later jackets had smaller brown, then green buttons as used on the M-1965 field jacket and later OG-107 fatigues.
M-1965 OG-107 Field Jacket with 4th Infantry Division patch . The M-1965 Field Jacket (also known as M65, M-65 Field Jacket, and Coat, Cold Weather, Man's Field), named after the year it was introduced, [1] is a popular field jacket initially designed for the United States Army under the MIL-C-43455 [2] standard by Alpha Industries.
A USAF MATS Douglas C-124A Globemaster II, 51-5183, inbound to Enewetak Atoll, Pacific Ocean, carrying nuclear test device components (possibly for the EGG device fired during the Operation Redwing Mohawk test) crashed 421 feet (128 m) short of, and eight feet (2.4 m) below, the runway at Enewetak Island, shearing off its landing gear and ...
The driver's seat is centrally mounted at the front of the cab, with the driver's eyes at approximately 10 ft (3.0 m) above road level, and the cab has room for two passengers. The 302 cu in (4,950 cc; 4.95 L) six cylinder gasoline engine refitted in 1953 had a rated output of 145 hp (108 kW) and 262 lb⋅ft (355 N⋅m) of torque at 1,400 RPM ...
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 ...