top flight protective gear and preferred bulletproof vest

[Afro-European]

What is the top flight protective gear for the military?
What is the preferred bulletproof vest or the safest gear on the market right now?

[Hippo]

im going to take a wild as* guess here and say...dragon skin, lulz

[James]

im going to take a wild as* guess here and say...dragon skin, lulz

Wrong.

The preferred body armor is the free stuff that one is issued. Ditto for flight gear.

[Hippo]

sacrasm is lost through the internets

[Dan2004]

This is the vest that I was issued in 2005, the M1955 flak vest:

http://www.mooremilitaria.com/M-55%20Flak%20Vest.JPG


And this is the vest that I upgraded to shortly afterward, the PASGT vest:

http://i16.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/e7/46/16ae_3.JPG

[Albatross]

This is the vest that I was issued in 2005, the M1955 flak vest:

http://www.mooremilitaria.com/M-55%20Flak%20Vest.JPG


And this is the vest that I upgraded to shortly afterward, the PASGT vest:

http://i16.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/e7/46/16ae_3.JPG


My lord that top vest is old, are you national guard?

[Dan2004]

My lord that top vest is old, are you national guard?

Worse. SDF. :)

[ShakesFIST]

Worse. SDF. :)

What is SDF? I've never heard of it.

[Hippo]

http://www.kent.net/robotech/ships/rdf/sdf-1_attack.gif

SDF?

[Supplanter]

I think this is what Dan2004 was talking about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_defense_force

[KEEPER0311]

Never heard of the SDF before...guess you learn something new every day.

[Erik2a4]

Whoa.

Old school there, Dan.

But should be fine as long as you stay in Ohio :)

I believe we have SDF down here in South Carolina. Saw a couple of "older" guys in ACUs with Palmetto Flag patches where the US Flag goes helping with the Cooper River Bridge Run last week. Nearly took out a few other runners in the process while trying to figure out exactly what I was looking at. p-)

As for the original question... Depends who you are talking to, and what they do. I have four different combinations of plates and vests...

You can't go wrong with issued stuff. Especially since the people who are going to cut it off you already have an SOP in place to deal with that should you get hit. And that's when seconds counts.

[Trunk_Monkey]

@ Hippo: AHAHAHA, good one, I was hoping it was that SDF too...

[Dan2004]

Here's a new pic of my soon to be replaced flak.
http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/3744/bulletcatchersa1.jpg (http://imageshack.us/?x=my6&myref=http://my.imageshack.us/v_images.php)

[airborneinfantry86]

Are you SDF cats aloud to be armed?

I know in ww2 they were.

I didn't know the SDF was issued thing, most of the Georgia guys I've seen buy a lot of there stuff.

[Dan2004]

Are you SDF cats aloud to be armed?

I know in ww2 they were.

I didn't know the SDF was issued thing, most of the Georgia guys I've seen buy a lot of there stuff.

Standard weapon for Enlisted personnel in the OHMR is the 12ga M870, Officers and Staff-NCOs get the M9. In the past, we trained with the M16A2 and the M4A1 per TAGs order.

I can't speak for the entire OHMR, but my home unit's supply section is pretty squared away, our S4 has been working his a$$ off in recent months. Plus we have several outside/commercial suppliers of equipment.

[OMON]

Dragon skin is the best

[nickless]

Yeah, right.... :roll:

http://www.abload.de/img/ds-faileq8.jpg

:bash:

[OMON]

donno how to post it correct


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[nickless]

I don't want to turn this into a thread about Dragonskin, but if you would do some research that goes beyond Murray Neal's propaganda, you will see that his claims can't stand in serious testing. Especially the glue used to laminate the disks together is ****e to fail in very hot or cold conditions, potentially leaving the wearer of a Dragonskin vest exposed.

[BrianT]

Alot of cool guys are wearing Paraclete RAV or whatever. Probably because the majority of SOCOM guys are wearing Eagles stuff, so they have to be one step cooler.:roll: Regardless, they all have the same ceramic plates in them. I like plate carriers personally. I have the CIRAS as well and it's just ridicilously bulky. I figure you might as well be wearing an IBA. Or maybe I'm wrong. Maybe that's a whole new level of suck. Eitherway, a plate carrier is just so ridicilously slimming. I'd like to try a CIRAS in small, but I'm unaware of us having small sized CIRAS.

[James]

I put my plates and soft armor in a carrier from BCS (http://www.beezcombatsystems.com/BCSNIJ.html). I used to wear a super duper Diamondback vest, but it was to bulky, and it was easy to attach too much stuff to it.

Less is more...