Chapter 1481： Body armor (1/2)

”Head Sirek, are you okay?” Reinhardt had the opportunity to ask quickly after returning to the palace temporarily prepared in Kiev.

Cyric waved his hand: ”It's okay. If it comes from a rifle bullet, maybe my rib will break. Fortunately, it's just a pistol bullet.”

With that said, Cyric had already begun to take off his clothes. Inside, he was wearing a special piece of equipment.

Nylon bulletproof vest.

In fact, in ancient times, the armors worn by soldiers in charge were even body armors, while body armor in the modern sense can be traced back to the First World War. At this time, most body armors used several arcs. The shaped steel plates are connected together, almost like the metal armor used in ancient wars.

In this way, until after the First World War, the United States studied quite a few types of soft bulletproof vests due to the demand of the domestic police market. As early as 1921, soft bulletproof vests were available.

However, they could not find suitable materials. The body armor made of heavy silk initially had a poor protective effect. It could only resist low-muzzle velocity grenade fragments. The pistol bullets had no protection. Later, someone used it. Try the nylon fiber developed in the laboratory. By 1923, a soft bulletproof vest made of silk and nylon mixed fabric was invented.

This time was a success. On September 13, 1923, at the shooting range of the Maryland Police Headquarters, Deputy Sheriff Charles Smith put on a bulletproof vest invented by the New York Protective Clothing Company and ordered his assistant to use a 9mm Browning pistol. The short revolver fired several shots into the chest at a distance of 3 meters.

As a result, he was intact. The experiment of the body armor was a complete success and began to enter the US federal law enforcement agencies and local police stations.

However, although this is a ”soft” bulletproof vest, it is still lined with a special metal bulletproof board weighing up to 5 kg.

At the same time, this can only be used in the police force. In the trenches, the silk will quickly deteriorate and lose its protective effect.

It was not until 1939 that DuPont’s nylon 66 fiber was officially produced in factory, and the soft bulletproof vest had a great development. By 1943, the U.S. Army had developed more than 23 types of body armor using nylon fiber. June 1945 , The US military successfully developed a bulletproof vest with a combination of aluminum alloy and high-strength nylon, the model is M12 infantry body armor. It can almost be regarded as a typical modern body armor.

The official use of body armor in the army has already come to the post-war Korean War.

At present, various scientific research fields in Germany are making great progress, and in German factories, advanced nylon fibers have also begun to be produced. This technology was introduced from DuPont, and Germany has undergone substantial improvements. .

Nylon is a kind of good performance. In many places, it can even replace steel to make gears and so on. For women, nylon stockings are the favorite.

Germany has developed an advanced bullet-proof vest, similar to the M12 in the United States, but also uses aluminum alloy as the backing and high-strength nylon on the outside. In this way, the weight of the entire bullet-proof vest is less than 3 kg. It's not bloated. After putting on a uniform outside, it almost disappears.

The impact of the bullet caused Cyric to fall backwards, but Cyric was not injured, only some redness and swelling on his skin.

At this moment, Hannah had already come over and rubbed the swollen area for Cyric. At the same time, she silently changed him into a new dress, which had a bullet hole on the outside.