http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/body-armour-saves-aussie-shot-by-taliban/2007/10/03/1191091167061.html

 

Okay so your regular forces are not in hot spots so much in Iraq but certainly are in Afganistan!!

 

Lucky man.

he was bloody lucky alright

Nice, he even had his pack and water bottle as extra armor lol. Just another reminder to keep you rear ceramic plates in.

I can't find the photo of the Brit who caught three in the head. He's got a huge grin on his face with the helmet on which has huge open craters in the kevlar helmet.

 

Impressive, can anyone else find it if you know what I'm on about?

I had a picture of an American soldiers ceramic plate that stopped 3 SVD rounds at 100 meters, that's 7.62x54 not the AKs pissy 7.62x39. Now that is some lucky ****. I'll have to see if I can find it.

Is it true a bullet to a Kevlar helmet could break your neck? Something I've heard and always wondered.

 

As for digger, very lucky!

Its a question of the kenetic energy caused by the rounds very quick stop when it react's to hitting the armour. Its not out of the question especially if it was a large calibre, high velocity cartridge. Navy_Medic would be a good guy to ask about this sort of thing its right up his alley in relation to this job.

 

I would say without a doubt taking a direct hit in your helmet would jar you neck something fierce, although I'm just not 100% sure it would break your neck.

No a bullet does not have enough mass to break your neck. If it hit your arm though it would break the bone there but when it hits the helmet the impact is absorbed somewhat. I would think it would feel more like being in a car accident and getting wiplash. That said if it was close enough that the impact would break your neck the projectile would most likely penetrate anyway.

http://www.defence.gov.au/media/download/2007/Oct/20071003a/27SEP07%20RTF%20CONTACT%20BODY%20ARMOUR.wmv

 

There is the video, little bits of the footage has been extended but keep watching it does talk about the Armor incident in the middle onwards.

Lucky lucky boy, great spirit though our lads have.

you think it mite break your neck if a burst of fire hit your helmet

A British soldier caught 3 AK-47 to the head, it's didn't break his neck. See my post above.

Bullets have very little effect as far as imparting momentum to the human body for example in real life getting hit by a shotgun at close range doesn't make you fly 3 meters backwards like movies and games would have you believe. You just drop like a sack of ****.

 

I believe the formula looks something like this p = mv

Where p is the momentum,

m is the mass of the object, and

v is the velocity of the object.

 

A bullet for example has a very high velocity but because of its insignificant mass it can not impart enough momentum to visibly affect the human body which by comparison has a huge mass. This all changes if the mass of the bullet becomes bigger however, if you get hit with a .50 cal or a 20mm or something, what is left of your body will probably visibly shift in space, lol.

I always hated science class

Well I know one thing I for one would not like to test out the theory no matter what science tells me. I can think of allot of things I would rather be doing then finding out if not only kevlar works on me. Let alone would it work and does you average bullet have the required energy to break my neck.

. Just another reminder to keep you rear ceramic plates in.

 

NO becuz this one time , this guy in delta forshes told me he wasn't going to get shot running away , okay? He also told me that his safety was his finger

 

But aye , lucky bastard.

 

Bullets have very little effect as far as imparting momentum to the human body for example in real life getting hit by a shotgun at close range doesn't make you fly 3 meters backwards like movies and games would have you believe. You just drop like a sack of ****.

 

I believe the formula looks something like this p = mv

Where p is the momentum,

m is the mass of the object, and

v is the velocity of the object.

 

A bullet for example has a very high velocity but because of its insignificant mass it can not impart enough momentum to visibly affect the human body which by comparison has a huge mass. This all changes if the mass of the bullet becomes bigger however, if you get hit with a .50 cal or a 20mm or something, what is left of your body will probably visibly shift in space, lol.

 

I believe where the notion that bullets affect human motion and momentum is a misunderstood interpretation of the body's natural reaction to that kind of initial trauma and shock , in which case , would probably be a violent jerk , which could be mistaken for someone getting knocked back.

Edited October 5, 200717 yr by hous_bin_farteen

NO becuz this one time , this guy in delta forshes told me he wasn't going to get shot running away , okay? He also told me that his safety was his finger

 

Maybe he didn't hear about the patrol that decided not to put in the rear plates to save weight and because they wouldn't get shot running away. They were ambushed and the rear two soldiers were shot in the back, Unfortunately they were wearing their front plates so the bullets went in the back, bounced off the front plate and back through their bodies for a second time. Both soldiers died.

Maybe he didn't hear about the patrol that decided not to put in the rear plates to save weight and because they wouldn't get shot running away. They were ambushed and the rear two soldiers were shot in the back, Unfortunately they were wearing their front plates so the bullets went in the back, bounced off the front plate and back through their bodies for a second time. Both soldiers died.

 

 

I was making a joke about some of the bull**** lines in Black Hawk Down , but thanks for the history lesson anyway .

Maybe he didn't hear about the patrol that decided not to put in the rear plates to save weight and because they wouldn't get shot running away. They were ambushed and the rear two soldiers were shot in the back, Unfortunately they were wearing their front plates so the bullets went in the back, bounced off the front plate and back through their bodies for a second time. Both soldiers died.

 

I'm curious about that considering the plates aren't designed to reflect bullets any more than kevlar is, they help to provide additional stiffening and anti penetration. I would like to see the report on it if you can drag it up again for me, I'm not saying it didn't happen but I would like to see/read about it myself.

by the time it would have gotten to the front plates, all the momentumn would be lost. It wouldn't surprise me that at close range it had enough power to hit the front plates and bounce off rather than break them