A fighter’s health and the success of any frontline operation also depend on his equipment, primarily protective. In Simferopol, they launched the production of body armor – especially for NWO participants. The strength of the product is tested empirically – at a special test site.
Protect from bullets, withstand the impact of fragments, save a life – can a body armor do all this: in the Crimea they check on a military training ground. Various models, manufacturers. Fate, as on the battlefield, is decided by a cartridge. And not necessarily piercing.
Sergey Mezhetsky, vice-president of the Union of Veterans of the Northern Military District, showed one of the plates, which was declared to the manufacturers for the fifth class of protection, but did not pass the test during the tests.
A fighter with the call sign “Nightmare”, examining the body armor of Zvezda correspondent Victoria Kosoglyadenko, found flaws in it.
“The plate, roughly speaking, is closer to the stomach, lower back, and should hang across the chest, covering all the important organs,” he said.
To understand what to change, you need a whole series of tests. In the Simferopol workshop, where the production of body armor has recently been launched, the quality of their products is closely monitored.
“They are very strong. On a hard velcro, all the nails are simply ground. It feels like such a plush. The most important thing is to sew it with high quality. In general, our specialty is a tailor , and we work with different fabrics, but that’s probably the highest aerobatics,” said Anna, a seamstress.
The head of the sewing workshop, Irina Chinchenko, noted that the body armor is a very complex product, consisting of a large number of components, emphasizing that one cannot make a mistake in production.
Everything is thought out. Even in case you need to get rid of body armor urgently.
“The quick release system is only used by us – we invented it ourselves – on steel cables, it allows you to drop equipment in a kind of unforeseen emergency in two actions”, said Valery Fanin, executive director of a personal protective equipment company. .
Chief technologist, she is also a designer of overalls, 22 years behind a sewing machine. Sheila for artists, brides and athletes. Now for the military. She says it’s her most important job.
“A sense of responsibility for each line, so that it does not collapse, does not fall. It’s important because I also have a grown son, and I imagine he can put on someone’s ‘armor’, but he won’t be strong,” said technologist Natalya Solovova.
The knitting shop next door stayed. Now the work is in two shifts. In addition to the previous tomes, now 20 brand new bulletproof vests go out to the front lines every week.
Earlier, Zvezda explained how volunteers from all over Russia were helping participants in the special operation. So, in Rostov-on-Don they created the production of camouflage nets. In Novosibirsk, volunteers buy all-terrain vehicles, load them with optics, equipment, thermal imagers, walkie-talkies, after which the cars drive to the NVO zone on their own. Assistance is provided at the Special Military Operation area, even for service dogs.
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