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Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows. (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Maybe on a plate from 1965 that is just a sheet of steel inside cloth. Modern ceramic plates spread the energy of the impact.

Here's a video of a Level IV plate taking a 30.06 AP round followed by like 6 5.56 AP rounds and a 7.62x54R AP round so powerful it jammed the rifle.

There's no significant plate bulge even after all of that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qLZwBeMuM

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, body armor has certainly improved from what i can tell ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Mind you, this is what people wear going into combat. It's for military, SWAT, etc.

An everyday police vest wouldn't take that kind of beating.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would just like to note that they were shooting at 2 separate plates here, and only shot each plate once with the grade of ammo at which they were rated. The first plate they did shoot with 5 smaller rounds after they hit it with the larger one, but they didn't shoot both of those larger rounds at the same plate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Those "smaller rounds" were extremely hot 5.56 rounds - an upgraded version of the rounds the guy above me is saying fires through brick walls and cracks ribs if it hits armor.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

All the guy you replied to said was that the bulge on the back of the plate from each of those rounds forms fast and hard enough that you'd feel it. Top comment of this chain was a different account.