This is worth watching.
For those who have not seen a good penetration demonstration ( what various calibres do against typical building materials) this redefines what we think of as cover.
Notes- at < 300 m, 5.56 does do a nasty job on flesh, but really does lack the penetration of a real rifle round. This is shown here.
- Notice the overall ineffectiveness of "Body Armour", in this case just a fragmentation vest. Your tricked-out high-speed "Beast" may make you feel like superman, but you are not. Remember that.
- Helmets save lives. We used to laugh at US forces wearing their helmets everywhere, and we always felt coolest when we would ditch the helmets and go with combat hats, booney hats, etc, typicaly on a recce patrol. Only one Sgt ever made us carry our helmets on our web gear on recce patrols, hatless to promote better hearing, but he made us put them on in the ORV. (a.k.a. once we neared the bad guys.) The actual recce of the objective was done with skid lids on. 21-year-old me thought it strange at the time, but he was one hell of an NCO, so I did as I was told. I asked him about it later, and, as usual, this guy had thought it through; "If you get hit in the body, there is a high chance you can carry on, at least extract with the patrol. You get hit in the head, and you're pretty much done. Danger is highest at the actual objective, so that's when I put it on." (That clever Sargeant, by the way, is now the RSM of CSOR) I later taught the same thing, in training, and had my crappy old steel helmet save my noggin in Somalia. I even wore my helmet while patroling into and out of our sniper hides in Kosovo. As unfashionable as your helmet is, WEAR IT.
So endeth the sermon...
Anyways, enjoy the videos, there are two parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhMOfaYwvE&mode=related&search=
Cheers,
Ben
For those who have not seen a good penetration demonstration ( what various calibres do against typical building materials) this redefines what we think of as cover.
Notes- at < 300 m, 5.56 does do a nasty job on flesh, but really does lack the penetration of a real rifle round. This is shown here.
- Notice the overall ineffectiveness of "Body Armour", in this case just a fragmentation vest. Your tricked-out high-speed "Beast" may make you feel like superman, but you are not. Remember that.
- Helmets save lives. We used to laugh at US forces wearing their helmets everywhere, and we always felt coolest when we would ditch the helmets and go with combat hats, booney hats, etc, typicaly on a recce patrol. Only one Sgt ever made us carry our helmets on our web gear on recce patrols, hatless to promote better hearing, but he made us put them on in the ORV. (a.k.a. once we neared the bad guys.) The actual recce of the objective was done with skid lids on. 21-year-old me thought it strange at the time, but he was one hell of an NCO, so I did as I was told. I asked him about it later, and, as usual, this guy had thought it through; "If you get hit in the body, there is a high chance you can carry on, at least extract with the patrol. You get hit in the head, and you're pretty much done. Danger is highest at the actual objective, so that's when I put it on." (That clever Sargeant, by the way, is now the RSM of CSOR) I later taught the same thing, in training, and had my crappy old steel helmet save my noggin in Somalia. I even wore my helmet while patroling into and out of our sniper hides in Kosovo. As unfashionable as your helmet is, WEAR IT.
So endeth the sermon...
Anyways, enjoy the videos, there are two parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKhMOfaYwvE&mode=related&search=
Cheers,
Ben
Most of the AK too. Either way, M16 got OWNED by the AK 
