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Originally Posted by Kanadesaga
Honorable men. How nice it would have been if they were allowed to wear Dragonskin armor instead of the bush buddy contract armor they have. I saw on Discovery Channel that Dragonskin actually survived a grenade explosion. But then again the inventor of Dragonskin was not a bush campaign contributor, so even the General who had Dragonskin had to stop wearing it. and that is how they support the troops. By not only giving them inferior equipment supplied by bush buddies, they do not allow the soldiers to have better equipment, even if they pay for it themselves.
Had they been wearing Dragonskin armor those 5 brave men would still be as brave, but also alive, to go home to wives, children and family.
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The Dragonskin is good stuff, but it has one major disadvantage compared to the Interceptor system that is current issue. It lacks hard plates. Sure,it can stop the same projectiles, and in some cases take a heavier blast, but the wearer will recieve massive internal trauma from the lack of rigidity within the vest. When your Interceptor plate takes a hit from small arms fire, say a 7.62X39 round from an AK-47 you may not even realize it. Your plate will need replaced, but it has effectively stopped the round without deflecting into your soft tissue. With Dragonskin, you are much more mobile, but that same 7.62 round is going to hurt like hell. Sure, it'll stop it, you'll live, but you may be taken out of the fight for a second to catch your breath, which is a bad thing during a gunfight. And that grenade blast that destroyed the Incerceptor, but not the Dragonskin would have been instantly lethal to the soldier anyway. We were told that the only way to have even a remote chance of living though a "save your buddy" grenade dive was to take off your kevlar helmet, put that over the grenade, then lay on the grenade with your body armor on. Usually, you will still be killed instantly. But your buddies have a much greater chance of surviving that way.