In India, tests of a composite body armor that withstand hit from AK-47 are completed

In India, they announced the completion of tests of body armor, the basis of which are composite materials. It is reported that research in the field of creating body armor, which is about 10 kg lighter than previous similar versions, was carried out by specialists from the DMSRDE Laboratory for the Study of Innovative Materials in Kanpur.

The creators of the personal protective equipment call it a bulletproof jacket that covers vital areas of the body: the neck, groin area, the body not only in front and behind, but also on the sides.

The new body armor was developed by order of the General Staff of the Indian Army.

According to the manufacturer, despite all its relative lightness (according to some reports, it weighs less than 6 kg), it provides protection against 9-mm carbine ammunition, and also withstands hit from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, distributing the impact on the material. The version of the machine is called - AK-47. At the same time, the range of the shot from AK-47, which is safe for a soldier in such body armor, is not said.

The bulletproof vest (bulletproof jacket) has a modular basis: plates can be replaced with those that correspond to a certain protection class.

The General Staff of the Indian Armed Forces noted that the new body armor, created on the basis of composite materials, will begin to enter the troops in the near future. Initially, they will be equipped with special units of the Indian army, including those deployed in the area of ​​the contact line in Kashmir, which remains a hot spot on the map of the region.

Comments

[aszzz888]

The manufacturer’s reports say ... At the same time, it does not say about the range of the shot from the AK-47, which is safe for a soldier in such body armor.

And why then do the media mention the AK-47? For advertising?

[Krasnodar]

Anyway, from 100 m after hitting 7,62 there will be bone fractures and injuries to internal organs. The soldier is likely to survive, but will be disabled during the battle.

[bessmertniy]

Here, obviously, the stake is on survival. A cripple survives or is combat-ready - this is already a happy accident.

[Krasnodar]

Theoretically, yes, severe contusion due to ingestion can cause irreparable damage to the kidney, for example

[Uncle Izya]

Yes, the heart will probably kill in the area?

[Krasnodar]

Quote: Uncle Izya

Yes, the heart will probably kill in the area?

Perhaps if the shooter is lucky

[certero]

Regularly there is a description of a bullet hit even from SVD. nothing terrible happened there

[Krasnodar]

Rib fractures, internal bleeding in the abdomen. This is me about getting 7,62 in ceramic body armor

[Jager]

and without it - a hole and a corpse ...

[Krasnodar]

Exactly
Or disabled

[missuris]

On YouTube, we tested the hit of 8.6 mm (.338 Lapua Magnum) FMJ in the armored plate from 6b43 level 6a from 100 meters, behind the stove there was a KAP, then pork ribs and a heart with a liver. only 1 rib cracked., on another plate without KAP a couple of ribs were broken and the liver burst.

[KrokodilGena]

Didn’t you see the video how the Chechen cops fired at each other at point-blank range with AK? And nothing .. In general, what is the discussion about, it is better without a bronik, so that there are no bruises?

[Krasnodar]

Better with a bronik, of course. I once put on ceramic)))

[TermNachTer]

If there are serious injuries, and they most likely will happen, will the soldier have time to bring him to a medical facility or will he be bent from pain shock or internal blood loss?

[Krasnodar]

Good question
Depends on three things:
1) Severity of injury
2) Where are the hostilities
3) The ability to provide first aid on the spot
Severity of injury - if we are talking about a rib fracture (say), as a result of which a large blood vessel was cut (the probability of this is small) - then yes, people are in danger
Damage to internal organs as a result of a bruise can cause slow internal bleeding.
Location - if this is a special forces operation behind enemy lines, it’s bad.
If they take him to the nearest Hospital - even worse
Under normal conditions, they are usually delivered by helicopter to a medical facility / field hospital. If such an opportunity exists.
Here and the intensity of the battle and the situation, etc.
First aid With a functioning military assistant and a safe place to assist, easily. You open the air (the jaw down, the tube with a hole in the mouth), put the system with saline solution, and then the situation
If this is Dagestan and you fight with barmaley - everything is ok. Extra forces go there, 80% of what will deliver the guy alive and let him out healthy from some Makhachkala hospital
If you are somewhere in Idlib, surrounded by militants, you put a helicopter in the figs, etc. - the forecast is less favorable

[TermNachTer]

And if a broken rib breaks the lung?

[Krasnodar]

Tear there a bunch of small vessels, breathing will work in half, the chances of grunting a lot more

[Evil Booth]

with such an area, this coctail is sewn up a special vest, because you need 500 grams per square DM and they come out half a meter, consider 50 dm. the warrior weighs over the stove in kg per dm. not well, if a soldier is cowards boots Kalash bronik, then the weight is quite. but in the end it turns out that this is a simple broonic + simple anti-shatter panels.

[Thrifty]

There is an evil booth, but what "simple armor" can withstand a hit from an Ak47? And while the armor plate does not receive through penetration? What kind of "simple splinterproof panels" can jokingly withstand a bullet from ANY Kalashnikov assault rifle without flying apart from impact? What are you writing about? ???

[Evil Booth]

Who is there? and where did you come joking

[Andrei from Chelyabinsk]

They don’t indicate at what distance

[Evil Booth]

whole flock aka superpupultra extra words or maybe it really weighs 30 kg and closes not 20 but 120 dm))) of which 60 is 4 +++ from non-armor-piercing from 100 meters out iksperdlov as torn

[Zeev Zeev]

Any bronik of 3-4 classes can withstand a bullet from AK, AKM, AK-74, etc.

[Uncle Izya]

It depends on which bullet if made of hardened steel or what else

[Zeev Zeev]

Grade 3 holds a bullet with a simple core. The fourth is holding a special armor-piercing bullet.

[missuris]

and tungsten cobalt? and 3-4 classes - whose is your reference measure? if NIJ then yes. if the new Russian is more likely 5, if the old Russian is more likely 5.

[Zeev Zeev]

I do not live in Russia, and we use the American standard of protection. And tungsten-cobalt costs such money that it is cheaper to make a bullet from titanium.

[Jager]

Taki AK and AK-74 have completely different ammunition. This is for standard.

[Pandiurin]

The claimed 6 kg is probably in the minimum configuration.
Modular body armor. If you put on the "saliva" in the photo protects your neck in front, panties on the groin area, etc. the mass is likely to be several times larger.
Then about additional plates that affect the class of protection.
Those. area = area of ​​protection, protection class varies greatly on the mass.

[Thrifty]

And if you shoot from AKS74, will it survive the hit?

[Evil Booth]

well, even low

[Zaurbek]

On what basis, interesting? If based on high molecular weight polyethylene (insert), then almost a monopolist in production is Dupont.

[paul3390]

Can you dance in it? If not, then it won’t work ..

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: paul3390

Can you dance in it?

The main thing is to pull on the elephant!

[English tarantas]

You can sing, but it will. They will sing in armor, and those who dance in the old bronics. And since they said that the bronik made easier than it could be, then you can try dancing. Hindus they are, do not feed bread)

[Nikolaevich I]

Well, and sho !? You think so! As far as I remember, in Russia they check bulletproof vests and how they hold a rifle bullet from the SVD (though I don't remember now, at what distance) ... but no one claims that the "armor protection" from the shooter in Russia has been successfully solved for a long time!

[knn54]

In metal science, the Indians clearly went around China.

[orionvitt]

America discovered. it’s the 21st century in the yard, and in India they finally made an armor withstand the AK-47. They had no Estonians in their family accidentally, or something like a late ignition.

[Kerensky]

Hm! And if it breaks and drags into the wound channel of this composite? How will healing go?

[saygon66]

- If the basis is polyethylene - there will be nothing ... Polyethylene is chemically inert ... So then - they carry cast-iron fragments in the body ...

[Vasyan1971]

The version of the machine is called - AK-47.

I do not know such a version ...

[Jager]

Without indicating a specific model of the machine gun, ammunition and distance, all these statements are empty.
And you can kill with a leg from a stool.

[senima56]

And how much does it weigh, such a body armor?

[Chingachguk]

Quote: Krasnodar

Anyway, from 100 m after hitting 7,62 there will be bone fractures and injuries to internal organs. The soldier is likely to survive, but will be disabled during the battle.

And he will regret that he survived after realizing the consequences of these fractures and injuries ....