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James H


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Stumbled across pic of cheery Soviet troops in what looks very like WWI German body armour. All their own work or Beutepanzer? (Or has Mr. Rigsby been tinkering again?)

BTW, have just learned that the Italian Arditi armour was somewhat romanticised. Despite L&F Funcken's impressive drawing of Arditi charging as if at Poitiers, it was used only for a short time for wire-cutting sorties, so they are more likely to have been horizontal.


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Hi James, They look very happy in it dont they.... in my distant youth when I was much fitter then I am today I tried on an original WW1 german breast plate that a friend of mine had, and all I can say is there is no way you could run any distant let alone charge across no-mans land in one of these getups it wieghs a Ton......This one had a bullet mark on it....

However heres some other pics, looks the same....although from the apparant holes I would say it was'ent bullet proof at least not at close range....

http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=21011

Seems that Soviet assault Engineers wore this getup.....


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  As I know all countries had they own? sometimes experemental "steel panzers" in WW1? including Russians - I have one clear photo and some drawings, but soviet ÑÍ-38 and ÑÍ-38 (stalnoy nagrudnik - steel breastplate) were designed in later 30-s basing mostly IMHO on experemental french armours. In WW-2 it was issued to Special Assault Engineers  - spec toops on chosen men for close and urban combat armed with flammers, satchel charges and about 100% SMGs and LMGs exept snipers.... The protection was enough against MP-40 and mortar&grenades fragments. Some soldiers used as light armour thick padded cotton jacket instead of cuirass even in summer....

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