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What a fucking hero.
Regarding the armor and casualties, I’m not aware of any body armor that remains effective after taking one shot. Kevlar works by solidifying at the place of impact. So after you hit it once, the rest of it turns into a weighted vest. Fudging the numbers of how many casualties we took/inflicted has been a thing people have used to project power for ages now. Hell maybe the 300 spartans got into a fight with like ten fancy persian dudes who just wiped the floor with them.
Ballistic plates can protect against multiple rounds depending on the plate and projectile, they’re standard issue body armor
US SOF is going to be wearing hard armor plates that are multi-hit rated against armor piercing rounds.
I don't mean to "well akshually" reddit-reply to your comment but it is important to know what our good and Godly protectors are wearing.
Edit: Sorry I didn't see someone else had already responded. Here is a little blurb on some Level IV plates that are available on the clear web to civilian scum like us, imagine what kind of spooky materials Delta has.
Shit this is all really really good to know.
Please do, comrade. That sounds like very important information that a lot of us would find very interesting right now.
Sparta had the best PR machine in the world. The guys sucked shit, got their asses kicked except for a brief 10-15 years and everyone still sucks their dicks about it. They weren't good for anything other than hunting slaves and they sucked at that too.
They had a shitton of slaves with them to Thermopylae and a bunch of other greeks too. The only good thing that came out of that debacle was the fact some dumbass romans tried to make their last stand at Thermopylae many years later - Against other romans! Everyone knew the story then, so the guys got their shit kicked in, which was very funny.
Or so I'm told
It's not even that they had the best PR machine in the world, is was that Plato was a fascist little shit who was a Sparta-boo, and he was the primary source for most Greek history for a very very long time. Most Athenians thought Spartans were a joke because their ability to create a navy sucked (because they ran a slave economy).
I always love the Sparta story about Philip of Macedon saying "if I invade sparta you will be destroyed, never to rise again"
Spartas response? "If."
Very cool.
What happened next was that they got invaded and destroyed. They're like the original fascists with how much shit they suck