On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:47:01 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote:

I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that Gunner Asch
wrote on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:28:14 -0700
in rec.crafts.metalworking :
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

And that rating has done some interesting things to the tactics of
those wearing it. You don't turn and run, you scuttle sidewise like a
crab "I'm wearing this wall!" as the E6 told me.

Its also the reason we are having so many people coming back from the
Sandbox sans arms, legs and with brain injuries.

Being involved in explosions that in any other war would have simply
killed you outright, are being survived in this one, due to good
quality body armor. Arms, legs and heads of course are not covered by
this torso armor.



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.

What ever works.


Its far far better to kill the enemy at a distance then up close and
personal. The Golden BB is a very real thing.

Gunner