PLA's Body Armor

sumdud · Sep 14, 2005

wow, 1000$ ??? It's a little weird, it cost 540 CDN $ to buy a tactical level III CRISAT (kevlar + titanium) vest in canada on civilian market, why it would cost more for military that got better price than the civilian ?? (For exemple, the Beretta M9 cost 175 US to buy for the US Army and 350 to replace, but the civilian got to buy it at a minimun of 550 on legal market)

President said:
chinese body armour
US$500 or less, 30-50% cheaper than others
quality, it can stop steel bullets and also 7.62 mm bullets with ak47 spray shots in 7 meters
deafult: heavy 2kg-5kg

Most Americans hate China, while most poor Chinese wish to come to America. But money is what says the word.

But either way, that's a darn good Chinese vest.
Spider silk vests are already available?

President · Sep 14, 2005

lots of chinese police equiped with body armor, but never saw any soldiers equip with these stuff.

RavenWing278 · Sep 14, 2005

can any one post some pictures of PLA body armour and helmet? i've been trying to search google for chinese helmets but they keep coming up as those han dynasty helmets...

does the PLA equipe all of its forces with kevlar helmets now? or are those helmets im seeing only for the font line units?

PiSigma · Sep 14, 2005

kevlar helmet is still pretty expensive for china with the almost 2 million man army. basically the navy have all good old days steel helmets, marines got kevlar, army elites got kevlar, army regulars got steel, and reserves got steel.

lazzydigger · Sep 14, 2005

Poor Aussie reserve force got nothing. I used Helmet only 1 time. And it is not very comfortable. Feels top heavy during manoeuvre. Helmet and body armor are only issued to active frontly combat units and certain reserve force unit during exercise.

Gollevainen · Sep 14, 2005

Poor Aussie reserve force got nothing. I used Helmet only 1 time. And it is not very comfortable. Feels top heavy during manoeuvre. Helmet and body armor are only issued to active frontly combat units and certain reserve force unit during exercise.

...well we sure did have to use the helmet...i lost my wintercap so i was forced to wear the helmet all the time...cos in finnish army there is this ridigilous rule that every soldier must wear some sort of hat all the time when you are in outside any building...except when eating...then you are not allowed to wear anything regardless if the tempature is -30 degree...

MIGleader · Sep 14, 2005

PiSigma said:
how do you do your math midleader?? there are more than 100 people in a division. chinese divisions have usually over 10 000 men. that's $5 000 000 to equip a whole division with armor. some divisions have more men. also a single division is not considered very big in a major war, a lot of battles are done with several armies. that's going to cost a lot to equip with armor.

thats still not alot, considering the armies funding is going to range in the tens of billions.

PiSigma · Sep 14, 2005

there are 1.6 million PLA ground troops, that's 160 of 5 million. it would cost you 800 MILLION to equip everyone with a vest. not even the USA is investing with that kind of money. just elite units have vests is enough, china have enough people for the army. most of the money going into the army have to be used for heavy equipment.

MIGleader · Sep 14, 2005

800 million is not too much considering you get at least 20 billion A YEAR.
the pla dosn't have to do it all at once. thay have five year priority funding.
so the only need 160 million a year.

remeber, the pla dosn't buy like the plaaf and plan. they are a bit more advanced and have developed most of their own equipment.

rommel · Sep 14, 2005

PiSigma said:
kevlar helmet is still pretty expensive for china with the almost 2 million man army. basically the navy have all good old days steel helmets, marines got kevlar, army elites got kevlar, army regulars got steel, and reserves got steel.

well, if you give a kelvar helmet to every soldier using canadians price, it's about 200 per helmet...

PLA's Body Armor

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