In India, a new version of body armor was presented that can protect when fired by AK-47

The Indian military industry has presented its own version of the new high-security body armor for the country's armed forces. It is reported that work on a new series of body armor was accelerated due to the complication of the situation on the border with China - in the Ladakh region. Some time ago, there were clashes between the Indian and Chinese military, during which sharpened metal rods were used.

The company "Midhani" last year decided to create, according to its representatives, "exclusive lightweight protective equipment" that is suitable for both infantry and crews of armored vehicles. New Indian bulletproof vests were named "Bhabha Kavach 6+". The first versions were presented in February 2020. It is reported that the final technology was developed in conjunction with the Center for Atomic Research (BARC).

From the statement of the director of the manufacturing company Sanjay Kumar:

The new body armor can withstand a direct hit from an AK-47 assault rifle. The pilot batch has already been sent to the troops for trial operation. We classify these body armor as protection class 6 bis (6a). Moreover, our samples are much lighter than foreign counterparts.

Sanjay Kumar noted that the bulletproof vest belonging to protection class 6a, after "some modernization", weighs 6,3 kg.

It is also stated that the bulletproof vest is able to save the life of a soldier, into which a 7,62 mm bullet is directed, flying at a speed of up to 700 m / s. The price of the new Indian body armor was also announced - 70 thousand rupees (71,2 thousand rubles).

It is assumed that the military department will purchase several large batches of such body armor after the results of the experimental use in the troops.

Comments

[Mavrikiy]

New body armor can withstand a direct hit from an AK-47 assault rifle

I think in a high-altitude war, the main thing is the weight of the body armor. The fire is conducted at a considerable distance. Lack of oxygen, and fighters, frankly speaking, are not heroes.

[Lipchanin]

Quote: Mavrikiy

Lack of oxygen, and fighters, frankly speaking, are not heroes.

The native inhabitants of the highlands are very hardy.
Sherpas in the Himalayas are by no means heroes, but the load of climbers for more than 7 km. without any oxygen devices they bring

[Shurik70]

6,3 kg for the 6th grade? Hindus are whistling.
Such a body armor has only a base, without armor inserts, which protects against shrapnel and bullets at the end, is about 4,5 kg minimum
And with inserts 10-15 kg will pull.
Maybe 6,3 kg is the weight of the base?

[Fedorov]

Indeed, it somehow weighs too little. My neighbor has something similar, holds an SVD, but also weighs 15 kg with plates .. And not at all ancient - 15 years old.

[hohkn]

Quote: Fedorov

My neighbor has something similar, holds an SVD, but also weighs 15 kg with plates .. And not at all ancient - 15 years old.

13 kg. Breastplate 3M-05. AKM keeps. But there the area of ​​the additional chest armor plate is only 8 kopecks square decimeters. Without this plate, the protection class is reduced to the third.

[ydjin]

That's right, I'm sure they will sound! Even vimans can build, but this is a secret!

[Vasyan1971]

Quote: Mavrikiy

The fire is conducted at a considerable distance.

Well, for now, Something not very ...

It's not for nothing that halberds are back in fashion ...

[Svetlana]

Controversial. Like soot "grown up in the highlands": oxygen starvation exists only among newcomers. Those who regularly visit altitudes up to 3 thousand meters have no particular problems.
At one time, we laughed at the Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev tourists who were hard going to the Pamir-Alai passes. Those transitions that we did in 2-3 hours, they went up to 6 hours.
..
The fighters who work in the highlands, today, are acclimatized to the campaign. Well, the officers give the recruits time to acclimatize. Should give.

[Megatron]

Is it stuffed inside with tea, but covered in elephant skin?

[halpat]

Quote: Megatron

Is it stuffed inside with tea, but covered in elephant skin?

pressed tea only in 2 chest plates, the rest of the filling is dried dung, if anything, you can make a fire, brew a seagull and warm up in high mountains.

there is no firewood, only snow / ice can be obtained.

[Mountain shooter]

Nothing is said of what it is made of. Ceramics? If so, which one?

[Undecim]

Nothing is said of what it is made of. Ceramics? If so, which one?
Ceramics. Boron carbide on carbon fiber from nanotubes.

[Note]

Rupee at the exchange rate to the ruble 1 = 1,2 ?! Lived ...

[Free wind]

Be patient a little longer, and soon the ruble will be valued like the dollar .... Liberian. For 1 dollar 200-250 Liberian, though this course is already 2 years old.

[Alber alber]

The demand for the rupee is even lower than the ruble, respectively, the exchange rate is greatly influenced by the local central bank and the image of the economy, the guys live in the south, the needs of most citizens are very limited, roughly, the lower castes for life and a piece of local cheap food will be enough, well, a couple of rags, and we have a big demand for imports, it's cold, the rhythm is different, the demand for goods is different, and the course is actually here.

[Ham]

Nobody needs rupees, so you can set the rate at least 1 to 1000 ... it's like with the hryvnia - the most advanced horses write - "the ruble rate to the hryvnia is 1 to 0.37! - Khan of Russia !!!"

[Stalllker]

This is not an indicator, compare the exchange rate of the ruble and the Italian lira and the standard of living in countries

[Zaurbek]

Compare, at the same time, and Italy's external debt and its ratio to GDP. Also in Greece ... and, horror, in the UK. By all standards, there should be a default for a long time. But they paint Euro .... or Pound or Dollar.

[Stalllker]

And what does this have to do with it ?! Let's also drag the USA here, a dream, not a country (sarcasm)

[Zaurbek]

Bring it .... every year imitate $ 1 trillion ..... this year $ 3 trillion already ....

[Stalllker]

So what? This is an indicator of what?

[Zaurbek]

This is an indicator only of the fact that if you do not have a reserve currency and you do not print it, then the rate will periodically drop and you will not be able to "print" it on social media. That's all.

[Stalllker]

These are candy wrappers that are not provided with anything. "Money" has long been in fact "electronic". I still have bills in my wallet that I removed from an ATM in April this year

[Zaurbek]

I have the same ....., but some can imitate them .... others cannot.

[Lexus]

They also have very "powerful" shields.

[Vasyan1971]

The new body armor can withstand a direct hit from an AK-47 assault rifle.

The main thing is to help from the guan dao. Yes, AK the case may not come.

[WapentakeLokki]

Quote: Mountain Shooter

Nothing is said of what it is made of. Ceramics? If so, which one?

.. nothing is said FROM WHAT DISTANCE he holds a Kalash bullet .. (.. as it is, however, it is not specified, but what kind of Kalash; 5.45x39 or 7.62x39 and this, you will agree, are very different Kalashnikovs .. (moreover, in neighboring Pakistan, it seems exactly 7.62 ..) ... and so yes, maybe from 400-500 m and holds maybe

[Sidor Amenpodestovich]

Quote: WapentakeLokki

It is also stated that the bulletproof vest is able to save the life of a soldier, into which a 7,62 mm bullet is directed, flying at a speed of up to 700 m / s.

[Zoldat_A]

Quote: WapentakeLokki

.. nothing is said FROM WHAT DISTANCE he holds a Kalash bullet ..

From 2 kilometers?

It is also stated that the bulletproof vest is able to save the life of a soldier, into which a 7,62 mm bullet is directed, flying at a speed of up to 700 m / s.

You can say something ...

[GREG68]

Well, if AK-47, then 7,62, of course.

[Revival]

1. Ak47 = 7.62
2. Bullet speed 700 m / s, that is, at close range

[nov_tech.vrn]

7,62 is said, however, a couple of bullets from 7,62, even without breaking through, will hit such hematomas that the client will not fight

[APASUS]

I am very surprised that India has just begun to produce bulletproof vests of this class,
before that they bought armor or covered themselves with plywood shields?

[notingem]

There, human resources are not limited. What are the armor. The main thing is that there are enough weapons for everyone.

[APASUS]

Quote: notingem

There, human resources are not limited.

Judging by the shields, you are right ............

[Zaurbek]

I don’t know how it is now, but the Russian Federation until recently bought high molecular weight polyethylene for body armor from the American Dupont. Not army.

[paco.soto]

It looks like a fake, a shot from a pistol inflicts terrible injuries and a hospital - in a bulletproof vest. Maybe at the end of the AK-47?

[Free wind]

The inventor of body armor, Kazimir Zeglen, demonstrated the protection of body armor on himself. They shot at him from 5 meters from a 45 caliber revolver, they didn't seem to break anything, though in 27 they still shot him, he forgot to put on a vest.

[tandem]

Did he forget to put on a bulletproof vest, or a quilted lining under the bulletproof vest?

[paco.soto]

Thank you for this information.

[Undecim]

body armor according to the protection class for items 6 bis (6a)
Strange, in the Indian standard IS 17051-2018 there is only the sixth grade without any bis and a, but this is already protection against 7.62 × 54R.
The Indians themselves in the official message of the Department of Atomic Energy class it as IIIA class according to the American NIJ standard (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1602788)

[Undecim]

Interesting train of thought minus. Although, in this case, the presence of thoughts is doubtful.

[beeper]

Well, what is the distance at which the protective plate of the new Indian body armor "holds a bullet (regular or armor-piercing incendiary cartridges of 1943, or from the new, recent decades, increased armor penetration, with a sharpened hardened steel core?) AK-47 (and AKM, or what, no ???) "?!
The tabular muzzle velocity of the standard 7,62 mm bullet cartridge mod. 1943, when fired from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, as far as I remember, 715 meters per second after leaving the barrel and during the aftereffect of the powder gases, it accelerates a little more.
I am too lazy to watch the data of an armor-piercing incendiary bullet and the speed drop depending on the distance (I know that our Dear colleague aka Undecim will do it better than me and put it on the shelves ), so the Indian (Chinese) "7,62 mm bullet flying at a speed of up to 700 m / s" is, I think, a distance of about 50-70 meters, not at point-blank range ?!
Although even without the penetration of the bulletproof vest, the injury to the internal organs will be quite sensitive, and the ribs may even break ?!
But if you manage to save the life of a fighter, then all these "troubles" of Indians with more bullet-resistant mass body armor are worth it!
IMHO

[Undecim]

Well this is at what distance the protective plate of the new Indian body armor "holds a bullet

Testing scheme for body armor from the American NIJ standard.
For pistol cartridges - 5 meters, for rifle cartridges - 15 meters.

[beeper]

Thanks, Dear aka Undecim!
I didn’t doubt you at all!

[Coconut]

and will protect you from a sniper's shot in the head ...?

[storm]

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation urgently needs to buy armor from the Indians, of course, after the appropriate tests!

Domestic body armor for the Ratnik complex is several times more expensive with comparable characteristics.

[silverwolf88]

Was that irony ??? ... or Belief in the power of Shiva?

[silverwolf88]

In India, highly developed mythology body armor from a bullet with a steel core ??? probably if only the bullet is exhausted ...

[alexey alexeyev_2]

Well, tse vzhe vaasche ... Armored against AK-47 from the field of fountains ...

[Alexander Drobyshev]

Judging by the inscription in English on the plate, it is most likely not an Indian development, they just bought a batch of armor plates somewhere, maybe even in China from Aliexpress

[Region-25.rus]

Quote: Megatron

Is it stuffed inside with tea, but covered in elephant skin?

"Bulletproof vest! Made of leather from a dragon's ass." (C) "Two torn off towers"

[Sergey Kulikov_3]

Quote: pishchak

Although even without the penetration of the bulletproof vest, the injury to the internal organs will be quite sensitive, and the ribs may even break ?!

Well, first, a shot from an AK47 will tear off the shooter's arm and shoulder, then his eyes will crawl out from the recoil, and only then the bullet fired from the AK47 will damage the target's internal organs by hitting the plate. Not otherwise!

[beeper]

Quote: Sergey Kulikov_3

Quote: pishchak

Although even without the penetration of the bulletproof vest, the injury to the internal organs will be quite sensitive, and the ribs may even break ?!

Well, first, a shot from an AK47 will tear off the shooter's arm and shoulder, then his eyes will crawl out from the recoil, and only then the bullet fired from the AK47 will damage the target's internal organs by hitting the plate. Not otherwise!

Thank you for such an exhaustive explanation, dear Sergey Kulikov_3!
It was interesting to learn the picturesque details from a knowledgeable "expert"!