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Russia Now Surpasses Everyone in Infantry Body Armor and Firearms
"If the Russians are coming across mechanized, with airborne and infantry units wearing their body armor, it basically means the Ukrainian rifles have no ability to penetrate the body armor worn by the Russian troops, meaning you're talking about having to shoot somebody six, seven, eight times, in the chest," Mr. Traudt said. "They're going to get bumped, but there's no lethality involved."Elite Russian troops are displaying a new arsenal of body armor, individual weapons, armor-piercing ammunition and collar radios -- a menu of essential gear that gives them a big tactical advantage against a lesser-equipped Ukrainian army. The Russians, in their new 6B43 model body armor, issued chest and back plates made of titanium and hard carbide boron ceramics. "The stuff they have is impervious to 5.56, whereas our body armor is not completely proven against their weapons," Gen. Scales said. Gen. Scales said the Russians carry AK-74s whose magazine is loaded with 5.45 "steel core" ammunition -- a round that on April 8 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives banned from importation because the agency deemed it armor-piercing. Gen. Scales described the 5.45 as "extremely lethal against any kind of body armor." Posted by: Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-22 |
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