and Flak Jackets? Every army that can afford to do so uses and issues:
1) Helmets
2) Flak Jackets
3) Battle Field Medics
4) Field Hospitals
5) First Aid kits
6) Battle Field Doctors and Surgeon and Nurses.
7) Wheeled and tracked battlefield ambulances
8) Helicopter medical evacuation.
Why would they bother to do this, if it is preferable to have your soliders DIE rather than to have your soldiers wounded?
I keep hearing over and over and over that the 5.56mm and 5.45 mm where chosen, because "they wound, rather than kill, and as everyone knows, it is better to wound your enemies because it creats a logistical bottleneck."
Secondly, I think that people who think a 5.56mm just wounds people, have never fired one. The first time I fired a 5.56mm I was 16, and I fired my brother's AR-15. He had me fire into a 20 pound block of ice. I fired, the entire canyon I was in echoed with the tremendous blast, and the entire block of ice vanished into shards and small pieces of ice crystals. We fired into clay. a .357 Magnum bullet made a really big hole in the clay. The .223 just vaporized the clay into pieces the size of candy.
Joshua, No, body armor can stop bullets:
In December 2009, a British soldier deployed in southern Helmand, Afghanistan, survived a shot in his back during an operation to clear insurgents from a village, thanks to the body armor he was wearing. Lance Sergeant Daniel Collins survivor's account and gratitude pictures its usefulness: "(...) I was hit in the back by a single shot. It must have been from about 200–300 metres away. The round knocked me down in an instant, it felt like being hit by a sledge-hammer at full swing. I slammed into the dirt face down. (...) I was in agony, I certainly couldn't walk on my own (...) I think it was a 7.62mm round. That's a high calibre bullet to be hit by, but it shows you that the body armour works. I wouldn't be sitting here now telling you this story, if I wasn't wearing one. Thank you to whoever designed the body armour. If I ever meet them, I'd like to buy them a pint" [21].
Cane Toad
If YOU want your soldiers to live, the other side does too.
1) Helmets
2) Flak Jackets
3) Battle Field Medics
4) Field Hospitals
5) First Aid kits
6) Battle Field Doctors and Surgeon and Nurses.
7) Wheeled and tracked battlefield ambulances
8) Helicopter medical evacuation.
Why would they bother to do this, if it is preferable to have your soliders DIE rather than to have your soldiers wounded?
I keep hearing over and over and over that the 5.56mm and 5.45 mm where chosen, because "they wound, rather than kill, and as everyone knows, it is better to wound your enemies because it creats a logistical bottleneck."
Secondly, I think that people who think a 5.56mm just wounds people, have never fired one. The first time I fired a 5.56mm I was 16, and I fired my brother's AR-15. He had me fire into a 20 pound block of ice. I fired, the entire canyon I was in echoed with the tremendous blast, and the entire block of ice vanished into shards and small pieces of ice crystals. We fired into clay. a .357 Magnum bullet made a really big hole in the clay. The .223 just vaporized the clay into pieces the size of candy.
Joshua, No, body armor can stop bullets:
In December 2009, a British soldier deployed in southern Helmand, Afghanistan, survived a shot in his back during an operation to clear insurgents from a village, thanks to the body armor he was wearing. Lance Sergeant Daniel Collins survivor's account and gratitude pictures its usefulness: "(...) I was hit in the back by a single shot. It must have been from about 200–300 metres away. The round knocked me down in an instant, it felt like being hit by a sledge-hammer at full swing. I slammed into the dirt face down. (...) I was in agony, I certainly couldn't walk on my own (...) I think it was a 7.62mm round. That's a high calibre bullet to be hit by, but it shows you that the body armour works. I wouldn't be sitting here now telling you this story, if I wasn't wearing one. Thank you to whoever designed the body armour. If I ever meet them, I'd like to buy them a pint" [21].
Cane Toad
If YOU want your soldiers to live, the other side does too.