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- From: ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
- Newsgroups: sci.military
- Subject: Re: RPG Combat Rules & Reality
- Message-ID: <BxvFr2.988@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:40:14 GMT
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- From ketil@ii.uib.no (Ketil M. Malde)
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- >>>>> On Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:42:57 GMT, eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2) said:
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- Erik> From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
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- >How effective are kelvar jackets or similar armour? In one Game I play nothing
- >but Assault Rifles (or heavier weapons) could penetrate kelvar jackets and
- >even then the target got only a light wound !
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- Erik> That depends on the caliber of the weapon and the ammunition
- Erik> fired. A shotgun firing shot will not penetrate while magnum
- Erik> loaded .44 magnum shells w. copper nosed teflon bullets will (I
- Erik> know, we tried). The question is really to general to be
- Erik> answered easily.
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- How about phrasing it more specifically, then:
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- What kinds of body armor exists (kevlar vests, plate insert jackets,
- helmets etc etc) and what will they stop?
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- I particular, how effective will they be concerning shotguns, 5.56,
- 7.62, 4.7 (caseless G-11), fragmentation grenades, 'raw' explosive
- blasts (not splints/fragments), sharp weapons (knives, arrows etc)
- and so forth.
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- (Note that the original question wasn't mine, though I would like to
- know as well. Thanks in advance!)
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