Body Armor

Factions	Body Armor	Icon	Classes	Equip Weight
					VC	ChiCom Body Armor		All	4
US	M69 Flak Vest		All	4

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Body Armor is equipment in Military Conflict: Vietnam that reduces some incoming damage while worn. It appears as two side-specific variants: the U.S. M69 Flak Vest and the VC ChiCom Body Armor.

In-Game Function

Body armor reduces incoming damage by absorbing a percentage of the hit. Explosive damage is reduced by 30% across all body regions. Shotguns and the QSPR are reduced by 20% on torso hits. All other weapons are reduced by 10% on torso hits.

HISTORY

Soldiers have used protective armor in many forms across history, from rigid metal armor to modern textile and plate systems. In twentieth-century warfare, body armor increasingly focused on reducing wounds from fragments produced by artillery, grenades, mines, and bombs. This kind of protection was often called a flak jacket or fragmentation vest.

By the Vietnam War, body armor was useful but limited. It could help protect against fragments and some battlefield hazards, but it was heavy, hot, and generally not equivalent to modern rifle-rated armor.

Sources

• M69 Fragmentation protective body armour vest | Australian War Memorial
• Body Armour, M69 Fragmentation Vest: US | Imperial War Museums
• "This Vest May Save Your Life!": U.S. Army Body Armor from World War II to Present | U.S. Army Special Operations History Office
• Chiếc áo giáp của Anh hùng LLVT nhân dân Đỗ Văn Chiến | Báo Quân Đội Nhân Dân mirror
• North Vietnamese Army Body Armor - Ho Chi Minh Trail | Enemy Militaria

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Real-Life Photos

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  Body armor vest in Korea (KWB 53-2511-171), National Museum of Health and Medicine Private First Class Leo Curran, Jr, (Co. E, 7th Regiment, 3rd Division), was hit in the back with fragment while wearing body armor vest on patrol.
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  In addition to normal combat operations while on a combined sweep operation in Binh Duong Province approximately 20 miles north of Saigon, RVN elements of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) conducted intensive civic action and PSYWAR Activities in the area.

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