A 50-caliber machine gun is re-loaded on top of a Stryker by the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, as the soldiers conduct a live-fire training downrange on Fort Carson military base on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The required training started on May 5th, to prepare soldiers for potential missions they may be called on to support around the globe. The training has been extended to May 27th. (Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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Fort Carson soldiers deploying to support vaccine efforts
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Sgt. First Class Doreen Fajota gives Sgt. Brittany Koppenhaver a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, at Evans Army Community Hospital as Fort Carson U.S. Army Base in Colorado Springs became the first military installation in Colorado to administer the vaccine. Healthcare workers on the first lines were the first to receive the it. The two nurses gave each other the first shots on base. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP, Pool)
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FORT CARSON â Fort Carson will be sending soldiers to support national vaccine efforts on the west coast.
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The claim is sure to raise eyebrows in the world of body armor.
While stopping such a big bullet is theoretically possible, the armor would be so bulky that it would be unusable.
A new Russian program to modernize the country’s ground forces is promising big advances in body armor technology. And we mean
big: The Russian military equipment manufacturer Rostec promises the armor will be able to stop the bullet from a .50-caliber machine gun.
Whether a soldier will ever be able to waddle to the front line, however, is a different story.
A Russian naval infantryman wearing body armor aims an anti-tank rocket launcher, 2017.