The soldier who had just been knocked to the ground by a sudden burst of bullets was now sitting on the ground, with two comrades accompanying him, checking to see if there were any wounds on his body.
After all, if you say that a person was shot seven times in the lower body at such a close distance and nothing happened, no one would believe such a thing, which just sounds so damn outrageous.
But I understand that the facts in front of me are indeed the case. The bulletproof armor that has been removed from the chest still contains the seven nine-millimeter warheads that failed to cause penetration. It is like the German armor-piercing bullets that cannot penetrate the Red Army.
The frontal armor of the heavy tank is the same, and it does a useless job.
Being able to sit on the ground with surprise even though he was shot seven times like nothing happened is all due to the SN-42 steel plate body armor.
Generally speaking, if the German's nine-millimeter submachine gun bullets are close to within a hundred meters and within a firing range of tens of meters, they can penetrate the not-so-thick SN-42 body armor from the front.
After all, the thickness of this forged steel plate is only two millimeters. It is unrealistic to expect this thing to be as protective as the Kevlar fiber and ceramic insert plate combination body armors of later generations.
But the problem lies precisely in the fact that the SN-42 body armor used by the Combat Engineer Battalion of Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division is somewhat different from the styles used by other friendly forces.
The bulletproof armor that protects the upper body is not one piece, but two pieces. There is no special technical content. It is just two identical bulletproof steel plates stacked on the chest and fixed with ropes along the four corners of the two steel plates.
OK, put it on.
Although the weight of the entire body armor has doubled, from the original 3.5 kilograms to 7 kilograms.
But to be honest, this seven kilogram load is really not a problem for the "elite" combat engineers.
Compared to holding a DP light machine gun, shooting from the waist, and charging simultaneously, what does the weight of seven kilograms mean?
What's more important is that this kind of double-layered modified body armor has been proven to be effective before.
Not only can it block direct attacks from submachine guns at close range, but it can also block all kinds of German pistols that are particularly deadly in close combat and have faster discharge speeds. Even the ones with the longest barrel, the longest effective range, and the highest discharge speed.
Even the runner-type Ruger cannot penetrate the modified version of the SN-42 body armor with double-layer armor.
Of course, this is limited to Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division using the captured artillery Ruger to test a modified version of the double-armored SN-42 body armor.
After all, the artillery Ruger is as rare as a giant panda on the battlefield. The so-called extreme defense test is simply impossible to appear and occur on a large scale in actual combat.
The solid protection brought by the double-layered heavy armor also has another benefit: Combat engineers, who always fight face-to-face with enemy infantry, can take advantage of this armor in hand-to-hand combat, which is no longer common.
The German soldiers who wanted to kill with a knife and stabbed at the vital point were often in vain and had no idea where to start. Facing the Red Army soldiers whose entire torsos were tightly covered and protected, they had no way to stab them and did not know where to stab them.
It is true that you can choose to stab your limbs with a knife, but the problem is that such a knife stabbing is not fatal at all.
The ferocious Maozi was able to withstand the damage of this knife, and with a backhand knife killed the German who had no protection and was only wearing a military uniform and killed him on the spot.
I am seriously disabled and you are dead.
Whether such an exchange is a loss or not is probably very clear to the soldiers involved on both sides of the war.
The double-layer modified version of the SN-42 body armor sacrifices limited mobility in exchange for a very good combat effectiveness bonus for the soldiers of the combat engineer battalion.
This kind of battlefield protection modification and upgrade was only used by a small number of strong and bear-like combat engineers at first, but later it became the unified standard armor of the combat engineer battalion.
Whether this effect is good or not, the front-line soldiers charging into the battle have the most say, and there is no need to debate too much.
Malashenko, who was also surprised by this situation, leaned down, picked up the double-layer SN-42 body armor lying on the ground, and observed it carefully in his hand.
The seven severely deformed nine-millimeter warheads were all stuck in the middle position where the second layer of protective armor was slightly deformed after penetrating the first layer of protective armor. They could not advance any further and completely lost their kinetic energy.
It can be seen that if he had not been wearing a double-layered body armor, the soldier who had been shot seven times would have been completely cold at this moment.
Although penetrating a layer of bulletproof armor will cause the warhead to lose most of its kinetic energy, the remaining penetrating kinetic energy can still tear apart the fragile flesh and blood and pour it into it without any suspense.
And because the warhead has been severely deformed, unstable and rolled during the process of penetrating the bulletproof armor, it will cause a more serious cavity effect after entering the human body. The already large-caliber nine-millimeter warhead can open up a person as big as a fist.
There's no problem with the wound coming out, even if it doesn't penetrate the body, it's enough to kill someone on the spot.
"Life is so tough! All seven shots were aimed at your upper body. If a few of them hit your limbs, you might die of excessive blood loss. This is considered a great blessing in not going too far.
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Even Malashenko couldn't help but admire him and praised the soldier sitting on the ground in front of him, who was still in shock. This was what Malashenko said sincerely.
The episode came to an end, and Malashenko did not stay in the cellar for too long. He came to the entrance and climbed up with the ropes that the soldiers above had lowered and prepared.
The first thing Malashenko saw when he came to the ground was Igokov's ashen expression.
No wonder, the moment he realized something was wrong and opened the cellar entrance, this guy's final fate had already been decided.
An ordinary bandit can be sent to labor reform, and he may have a chance to restart the rest of his life.
But such a talkative attempt to protect the bastard who harbors bandit leaders No. 1 and 2, and send him to labor reform is a sin that wastes air and consumes food.
Malashenko, who didn't even bother to look at this kind of garbage anymore, waved his hand and gave a very absent-minded order before turning around and leaving.
"Shoot him immediately! There is no need for an interrogation, there is no need for it anymore."
The collapse on the spot after a brief conversation and the howling of ghosts and wolves were insignificant. At this point, Malashenko, who had brought a successful end to his journey to save Vatutin, returned to the position of commander of his temporarily requisitioned T43 medium tank.
After that, I finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.