Nemesis Lead Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Battlefront, 1) How will Body Armor on US troops be modeled? I have heard that body armor is estimated to have reduced total casualties by an estimated 50% and have reduced fatalities to 1 in 10 casualties. For example, if men had no armor in an engagment you might have 100 casualties with about 30% (30) of them KIA. If the men were armored in the same engagement, you might have 50 casualties with about 10% (5) of them KIA. 2) Will the effects of body armor depend upon weapons used against troops (body armor might not help if a Stryker was blown up)? 3) Does anyone know if the Syrians use body armor? I have seen some insurgents in Iraq and Afganistan wearing it on rare occasion. Part of what intrigues me about this is that....from reports of US troops in Iraq, they seem to be more aggressive than in wars past. Some of this is surely due to modern CQB technique/training/an all-volunteer military, etc.. But the men seem to clearly have faith in their armor and they have adjusted their tactics to account for this capability. On the downside.....there are reports from Afganistan that our troops are not nearly as mobile as their adversaries because of all the stuff they carry and the armor they wear. Taken together, in CMSF you might also have radically different tactics for armored vs. unarmored men. I did a search and could not find anything on this. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C'Rogers Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 This has been covered, not sure why your search didn't turn up anything. Body Armor Thread This is probably the most comprehensive thread on the issue. Tiring This thread is about tiring but BFC talks about some body armor issues. As for your third question in the Syrian thread I think Rudel brings up that some Syrian forces use body armor very often. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 The Syrian "Elite" units are a huge qualitative cut above the rest of the Syrain armed forces. They will have all sorts of goodies, including body armor. Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudel.dietrich Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Only Syrian special forces should get body armour I found no evidence to suggest their guards and airborne units have armour Hezbollah units should also get some based on a random % that assigns armour to some of its members. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battlefront.com Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Yup, currently only Army Special Forces and Special Terrorist units are being issued body armor in any way shape or form. Everybody else is SOL Steve 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudel.dietrich Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Originally posted by Battlefront.com: Yup, currently only Army Special Forces and Special Terrorist units are being issued body armor in any way shape or form. Everybody else is SOL Steve More like SFH 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Sequoia Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Special Forces Hezbollah? Just a wild guess. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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