BODY ARMOUR
TESTED IN AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) SYDNEY, September 15. Light body armour made in Australia withstood bursts from two sub-machine-guns in tests carried out in Sydney. The armour consists of light steel plates linked together, and with the enclosing tunic it weighs 61b. 13oz. Bursts were fired from a range of 25 yards. Most of the bullets broke into small fragments. Some, from a Thompson gun, flattened into mushroom shape. Australian-made armour-plate steel is claimed to be superior to that used in body armour by Britain, Russia, Germany or Japan. The armour will resist .45 calibre and automatic pistol bullets, bayonets,, hand grenade and bomb splinters, and shrapnel. It will not resist high velocity missiles such as rifle and machine-gun bullets.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1943, Page 3
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