Comments on: Pinnacle’s New Armor

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:03:45 +0000

They did. They’re called “tanks”.

By: torch

torch — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:34:45 +0000

Steel “vests” and “breastplates” were widely advertised during the U. S. Civil War. They were effective against the low velocity soft lead bullets of the day, but were entirely to heavy and awkward and were discarded early in a soldiers first long march.

By: Alton

Alton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:34:52 +0000

Guys, look at the one in the middle. He's either got a huge wag o chewin tabacco in his mouth orrrr. "Corr! It's really im! Tis himself! Standin there like is 'royal highness'. Blimey! Ah must be going daft. Must be all tha 'hanthrax' shots I got when I was in the regiment. Now what was the name again? The OLLLlD Gaurd? The 3rd Herd? The Fleet of Foot? Crikey, help me out someun".

By: mike

mike — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:06:17 +0000

Sorry Zandor — that was me who got dioriented.

By: Charles

Charles — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:50:48 +0000

I suppose if they designed heavy armor that came with rollers, they could move along and look like the Daleks of Dr. Who.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:47:30 +0000

Should wikipedia Ned Kelly.He used armour that worked in 1880…until the police shot him in the legs that were unprotected.

By: Alton

Alton — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:24:48 +0000

Senator McCain says, “ Sticks and stones may break my bones but the words of that ‘rogue’ Palin will never hurt me. That is, as long as I’m wearing the new, ‘Republican’ brand body armor. That’s right guys, it’ll even protect you against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, bank failures, car makers going bankrupt, massive unemployment and all the evils of socialized medicine. That is just as long as you keep your credit cards in your wallet, inside your vest with the flap down and the button closed. Oh yeah, you might want to marry somebody that’s Looaaaded too. So take it from me, former naval aviator, beer drinker and an all good guy. Buy ‘Republican’ brand body armor and we might find another use for all those clunkers we turned in this year”.

By: MIKE

MIKE — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:09:13 +0000

The first “Palestine” was a Roman Term after the Romans conquered the Jewish people.

Palestine originated from the Romans.

The quote on quote “country called Palestine” was never a country. Before it was Israel, it was the British Mandate of Palestine, and before that it was owned by the Turks. A country? No.

Isn’t it nice the when prophecies come true?

The Palestine province is now called Israel.

Check your facts.

By: clowe

clowe — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:17:45 +0000

Freefallingbomb…

I tried to do this privately with the email you provided on the sign in, but it bounced back, so I have to do this publically. I like having you in the discussion on Defense Tech and I don’t like nit picking people’s comments generally, but I cannot abide comments like this:

“Jewish body armour is lighter, and much more effective than that at stopping bullets, even rockets: It consists of lots of Palestinian babies.”

Please, man, stop these kinds of comments. If you don’t, I’m going to have to block your IP address and I just don’t want to do that…

Also, please use Tiny URLs for your links. The long ones you’re putting into your comments are breaking the Moveable Type template…

Thanks,

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:15:38 +0000

That armor is French cuirass issued to cavalry. It was intended to stop a lance or sabre not a bullet, which is why those are full of holes).

Within a few weeks of the start of the war they stopped wearing them since they were useless.

Brewster body armor was designed to stop a bullet but too heavy to be of practical use.

Germans used something similar called, MG gunner’s armor, to protect gunners from shrapnel.