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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 . Nevertheless the Army's and Marine's Flak vests did a ...

  3. 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 .

  4. 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 ...

  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. List of the United States Army weapons by supply catalog ...

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    Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.

  7. AG Merrick Garland talks illegal guns, violence at crime ...

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    Attorney General Merrick Garland talks crime reduction at national summit in Indianapolis.

  8. 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.

  9. What winners wear: Indianapolis 500 launches a winning jacket ...

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    When is the 2024 Indianapolis 500? The 108th Running of the Indianapolis 500 is scheduled for May 26. What time does the 2024 Indianapolis 500 start? Driver introductions will begin at 11:47 a.m. E.T.