From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Yup often mucho as with fighter aircraft speed is life much more than armour is life.

Wrt the vehicles....a couple of 155/152 tied together & the armor had
better be up to MBT stds. & the vehicle had better have the weight of
an MBT coz otherwise spinning through the air & then impacting upside
down can still do a lot of harm.

Adam

> http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1496185
>
> But whether individual Marines and soldiers actually want to use the new
> armor is another question. Marine Sgt. Jared McNerney came to Capitol Hill
> to demonstrate the new armor but did not wear the shoulder protection. Asked
> why, he explained the added armor hot, heavy and makes it hard to move.
>
> "I'm in the infantry," McNerney said. "Most of the time
I'm climbing over
> walls, jumping through windows, kicking down doors, I need the most mobility
> with most protection I can get which was the setup I had right here. If I
> put those [shoulder protectors] on, I can barely extend my arms over my
> head. I can't climb a six foot wall, hop over it, hop a fence, jump through
> a 3-foot window. There's a lot of stuff I have to do with my arms, that's
> the reason I choose not to wear my shoulder pads."
>
>

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