Posted on 08/22/2007 9:16:47 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
It was featured on MythBusters earlier this week too. They are looking to use it when they rebuild “Buster”.
Hopefully it protected them from exploding GM trucks.
Futureweapons is nothing more than an infomercial on whatever products they are playing with.
Pretty good discussion here on body armor.
http://www.socnetcentral.com/vb/showthread.php?t=68492
What did MythBusters find?
Congress needs to keep its mouth shut and let the Pentagon make the decision.
I know that the military has the ability to make mistakes, but most of those mistakes are caused by politicians sticking their noses where they don’t belong.
Thanks.
The Pentagon may not be quite as vulnerable to political sway as the Congress but they are not far behind.
The Pentagon has a bad reputation of generals retiring and taking jobs with contractors whose projects they governed and evaluated.
So would be careful of taking the Pentagons word on the value of any given piece of hardware.
That is a good point, the generals in the pentagon are pretty much politicians.
But they are further away from the politics and I think they are more likely to make the decision based on what the soldier needs than some chud in Congress who is trying to get re-elected.
“”Pretty good discussion here on body armor.””
http://www.socnetcentral.com/vb/showthread.php?t=68492
That is a good discussion on the subject, thanks.
The Army is full of RINO jackass political corrupt bastards.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTrTrsJu3pk
Army ‘tested’ and banned Dragon Skin because of ‘failures’.
However, the ban was two months BEFORE the testing!
Bullshiite!
Until Dragon Skin is made for the face, this is a tempest in a teapot.
Current Army body armor is called ‘Interceptor’, designed by Jim McGee 10 years ago, a retired Marine colonel.
Jim McGee was asked recently “what is the best armor available today?”
Jim McGee says “Dragon Skin is the best out there. Hands down, it’s better than the Interceptor, it is state of the art”.
He adds “If I were sent to Iraq tomorrow, I would buy Dragon Skin and wear it.”
More proof of the superiority of Dragon Skin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKnfHhRl7U0&mode=related&search=
And more proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RphBEyu4GoY&mode=related&search=
Corrupt political bastards.
Banned by the Pentagon?
The inventor of the current armor, Interceptor, says Dragon Skin is the best in the world.
The Pentagon is full of corrupt bastards.
I am currently lugging BA around Afghanistan and I have to say that 20 pounds might as well be 100 pounds.
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