On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:28:07 -0700 (PDT), Jim Wilkins
wrote:

On Jun 9, 5:28*pm, Wes wrote:
Trevor Jones wrote:
*They work good for their intended purpose, though, which is to provide
a last ditch pokey thing on the end of a shooty thing! :-)

I wonder how well a 9# battle rifle and a bayonet does piercing flexible body armor?

Wes

You mean 9 pound rifle, right?

I don't have Gunner's experience but I understood body armor to be
protection from blast fragments. The answer to the bayonet is your own
weapon.


military body armor indeed used to be primarily for shrapnel
protection, but its gotten so good, thats its got projectile ratings

Civilian body armor of course is primarily projectile protection.

the best protection from a bayonet is a tot artillery barrage on the
oncoming enemy troops.

or massed machine guns in enfilade.


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