Talk:Body armor

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This article really needs split into a 'Modern' and 'Pre-Modern' pages. Theblindsage (talk) 03:20, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Agreed! I came here looking for information on ancient and traditional body armor and nothing in this article is relevant. 209.136.39.130 (talk) 12:02, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

Historical vs Contemperary armor
Looks like a great article. I just noticed that while the article talks about many historical issues, the pictures all seem contemporary. Its probably harder to get pictures of older examples (though these may be easier to get with useful licenses), but it would seem any that can be found would help the tone of the imagery match that of the article. --Δζ (talk) 20:39, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Main explaination
"Personal armor (or personal armour) is a type of light armor used to protect police forces, private citizens and private security guards or bodyguards, whereas hard-plate reinforced vests are mainly worn by combat soldiers, police tactical units and hostage rescue teams."

--> change to: "Personal armor (or personal armour) is the whole of protecting clothing, designed to absorb and/or deflect slashing, bludgeoning, and penetrating attacks. They were historically used to protect combat soldiers, whereas today, they are also used to protect police forces, private citizens and private security guards or bodyguards. 2 types exist: regular non-plated personal armour (used by the people mentioned above) and hard-plate reinforced personal armour, which is used by combat soldiers, police tactical units and hostage rescue teams.

changed it allready, kept duplicate of change here just in case. 91.182.245.136 (talk) 12:49, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Where does this shot go?
File:Japanese World War II bulletproof vest.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geofferybard (talk • contribs) 21:31, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

Note the lede should not include use of a dog it raises a POV issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Geofferybard (talk • contribs) 21:32, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
 * How is this off-topic/POV? This article is intended to cover ballistic materials that are intended to protect flesh. It is good to get an image covering non-human use of armor and this counters systemic human bias. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marcus Qwertyus (talk • contribs)
 * The Lead should reflect and summarize the main article. Dogs are not mentioned in the entire article. ( Hohum  @ ) 16:42, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Law Enforcement
The law enforcement section has pretty obvious bias and sources only from the US, whilst referring to worldwide statistics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.132.97.132 (talk) 14:26, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 22 January 2016

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Personal armor → Body armor – Primary name. Used in legislation in US, commonwealth and EU jurisdictions, used much more commonly in books, google and bing results (below). -- Callinus (talk) 07:53, 22 January 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Callinus (talk • contribs)
 * Google books ngram comparison shows "body armor" more common, and British spelling goes back to 1800.
 * "personal armor" bing 34,000 google 71,000 google books 3,210
 * "personal armour" bing 10,000 google 24,000 google books 1,310
 * "body armor" bing 5.4 million google 8.1 million google books 139,000
 * "body armour" bing 2.1 million google 1.1 million google books 54,000
 * Support; seems a clear case of WP:COMMONNAME. InsertCleverPhraseHere InsertTalkHere 04:04, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom/common name. Calidum T&#124;C 03:35, 30 January 2016 (UTC)


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Spelling
Hold on a second, the armour article uses the spelling with the "u". Same with vehicle armour, armoured fighting vehicle, armoured warfare etc. Does this article then not violate WP:CONSISTENCY? Bataaf van Oranje (Prinsgezinde) (talk) 13:09, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * See MOS:ENGVAR. 93 23:52, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

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US Military Ratings
After the Mogadishu Mile the US military started a higher rating system for powerful threats. (example: loPSYWJyGjY)


 * MIL-IV: 7.62x54mm AP, 7.62x51mm M61, 5.45x39mm 7N22
 * MIL-V: 5.45x39mm 7N24, .338 Ball, 9.3x64mm Brenneke
 * MIL-VI: .338 AP, 7.62x54mm 7N33, 7.62x54mm 7N37, 5.45x39mm 7N39
 * MIL-VII: .338 SLAP
 * MIL-VIII: 12.7x108mm Ball
 * MIL-IX: 12.7x108mm APDS, 14.5x114mm Ball
 * MIL-X: 14.5x114mm AP LeanZambia (talk) 03:24, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Shields
Hello, friends. I have never edited and am doing so now for the first time, but would like you all to consider removing shield from the "protected areas" section, as it doesn't really fit and seems more like equipment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.96.97.194 (talk)

Subject line about laws.
On the Felony page, it mentions how felons may lose permission to possess body armor. May be useful to mention this (and other) laws surrounding the use of body armor. Holdonspirit (talk) 07:20, 24 December 2020 (UTC)