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https://t.me/ButusovPlus/13470
"Even in a gunfight, we'd just get our asses kicked by the simplest rifles."
Russian soldiers posted a video testing the "unparalleled" bulletproof vest "Module-Monolith," produced by JSC "Special Materials Research Institute" (St. Petersburg). During the experiment, all five bullets penetrated the armor plate completely. The soldiers expressed their dissatisfaction with the quality of the heavy and useless gear: "Just f*cking great. Thank you, Ministry of Defense."
Interesting to think that the U.S. has spent so much money to develop and test a new bullet and rifle combo specifically to beat Russian body armor, all for naught.
It’s what the US always does. Russia claims to have this or that so the US builds something to defeat it. It’s happening with China now too.
I am confident that the US has samples of Russian body armor and has performed penetration testing and taken the results into consideration in doing its assessments.
This particular plate may be sub-par relative to how it's supposed to perform. But body armor is not hard to get ahold of; you can't keep it that secret. This isn't going to be a MiG-25/F-15-type scenario, where the US dramatically misassesses capabilities and then goes to build something capable of defeating the (considerably-more-capable) system that it has theorized about. They'll be making a decision based on being able to actually test the system in question.
Wasn't it also for the fancy stuff that China is developing? Also this video doesn't mean that Russia hasn't produced better armour (they obviously have, that appears to be unhardened mild steel lol) , just that they can't mass produce it.
Ah, didn't think of that, probably so.
ProdigalFrog, it was a different time.
It was back when we didn’t know the Russians were incompetent.
Oh no. The US did that for China. And because it really was time for a new rifle.