Next Generation Body Armour Giving Future Soldiers The Edge | Forces TV
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- Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion The Rifles (3 RIFLES) are training alongside their US colleagues in South America, while also testing the British Army's latest protective kit, Virtus. The system is designed to combat some of the problems experienced with the older kit worn in Iraq and Afghanistan. Virtus is lighter, slimmer and more flexible than its predecessor, designed to give the future soldier more comfort, mobility and endurance.
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Its funny eh, ive trained with brits germans french and both american army and marines when i was with the Canadian forces and when we would train together its like as if our flags never existed and we were just a group of friends training together. For all the flack each country gives each others militaries you see stuff like this where we cross train together and we work flawlessly together. Makes me proud to have served beside any and all of the above mentioned countries
I assume that's because of NATO?
the only difference is, one army has working radio equipment and one doesn't
Thanks mate. THAT'S AWESOME TO HEAR. I can only who we can keeps this relationship going between all our countries for as long as possible.
2:00 That man is HUGE
He's probably over 6ft tall but she might also be on the short side making the height difference more noticeable.
British Soldiers are HUGE
or she is small
Never had a problem with osprey or kestrel or the MK7 helmet. Clearly though the big wigs see it differently. As that full screw said, he likes his kit and change isn't always good. If it ain't broke, don't fix it comes to mind, along with the huge waste of money they spend on upgrading kit. They new armor prior to this had been barely in use in the field army. Why didn't they just wait and do this stuff instead? Crazy.
+Bear McGoat I agree there to be fair. It's time for a change of full doctrine. Like ammo resupply logistics and the way in which we use our equipment.
@@_Matsimus_ hi
@Kekistan Shitlord name fits ya
Kekistan Shitlord man was in the military dude, he was a tanker, and whether or not he was in combat he still had to do drills and shooting exercises
Virtus helmets are great, get the odd break here or there from one of the blokes but apart from that I wouldn't change a thing
took them some fucking time to realize that fighting with 50 pounds of marching kit is not a good idea.
WHAT FUCKING INNOVATION PEOPLE! FIGHTING WITH LESS WEIGHT ACTUALLY WORKS QUITE WELL!
Strefs I hear you! We didn't call it the afghan shuffle for no reason 😂
Every so many years, they realize infantry is carrying to much and set about making their kit lighter. Over time the kit gets heavier and heavier until they realize infantry is carrying to much again...the poor bugle boys will always end up with sore feet and sore backs.
I hope that, if I do start training, then I'll get to try out this new kit as part of it. It really does just seem like SUCH A IMPROVEMENT over the previous versions.
Love British Army
Look at dragon skin body armour, land warrior system with body cams, or tactical vests all these things could be used. check out the metal storm too.
wow i can remember black webing with brass bucles lol
robert smith 1945 pattern! Matches and Brasso to clean your brasses ! Happy days. 🤗
It's good that the MoD is taking strides to improve the army's gear, but I think they should re-design the osprey instead of making a new one with more issues to fix and adapt.
full set of osprey is 20kg on its own then you got like 20-30kg of kit on top of that so go run around in that and then say that we dont need new body armour.
Fight light is awesome in idea but the reality that I’ve seen it 1200 linked rounds carried in my wedding and day sack. With 1 lt of water this was 2 weeks in Lithuania carry a Gimpy as personal weapon
what is the yellow thing attach with gun barrel
0:27 what did he put in his mouth, after he threw the grenade?
"Elite urban training area"...How the hell can a area be "elite"?
Wall let’s you shoot real rounds, that’s kinda cool.
I imagine its more realistic
This is interesting i dont know if ill get to try the kit myself when i start my Phase 1 training but again new body armour and helmets might not come as fast as people expect it to.
I'm in catterick infantry training and some lads still have mk6 helmets, we use susats and have dpm armor that isn't even bulletproof, don't get your hopes up haha our kit is gash
Thats true :P Our kit is bad but not that bad, in comparison to other armies.
+SlopedOtter wow even you still use DPM I thought it was just us cadets still using those
2 questions, when comparing these two armours which one can A. stop a bullet better, and B. If one is more expensive than the other, then how much more expensive is it?
I believe they both use the same bullet resistant plates and no idea about cost.
Isaak Abou Ahmed virtus will eventually use redesigned plates that will be just as if not more protective but lighter, additionally purely by plate carrier material and the amount of it virtus is lighter and less bulky and better ventilated
The idea these days is to be faster and quicker for both infantry and tanks
@@alixsus964 I suspect better mobility was always advantageous, so what has changed in the doctrine that makes it more important now than before?
is that new helmet you guys are on about the MK7?
+MTP Desantos123 It's a Revision Cobra helmet
+strikerE92 they only just got the bloody MK7! the MK6 was used for almost 40 years! MK7 not even half a decade!
+strikerE92 too American. prefer salad bowl MK6
Desantos123 na
Desantos123 i have the mk6 helmet its the most uncomfortable thing i have ever put on
I know the plate protects the vital chest area, but what about protection from gutshots?
If worn correctly most modern body armour types are designed to cover the chest with plates. The abdomen is rarely covered. Chest and back plates are only about 25x30cm, so covering heart and lungs is the priority.
neo what about your baby makers? 😁
an instant downside to the virtus armour compared to the Osprey, is the virtus's tighter armour configuration will emit more force into the body over the plates that took most of the force of the bullet. the virtus as protection only seems to stop bullets and shrapnel, and not the force, but it gives a much larger area of protection
+MTP Desantos123 its the same plate within it, just a different housing. won't make a difference
+Ben Brown no it's a sheet of anti-ballistic material
+Desantos123 UK Same stuff, same plate in a different carrier. It's a composite of SiAl and SiB with a polyethylene backing roughly equivalent to the US NIJ level IV standard or the Home Office's RF2 standard plus a level IIIA or HG2 soft armor backing.
+sawyer lawrence I don't like how we are buying or copying American shit now.
what happened to the originality?
we're turning into an eastern military which are American copies
Here in the US we have a very large civilian population that buys military type gear, most of the original designs come from the American civilian companies first. Ops core helmets in the hi cut style weren't made for the military at first, they were so civilians could wear hearing protection while they wore a helmet. Plate carriers are another civilian invention, the army issues them, but would rather troops wear the IOTV. Even things most people take for granted like HSGI TACO pouches or BFG ten speed mag pouches were made for American three gun contests where a closed top mag pouch puts you at a disadvantage. The battle belt used to be something armies thought was replaced by MOLLE chest rigs have seen a resurgence because of American Preppers and tactical shooters who set up layered gear loadouts. There is plenty of origionality left, there just isn't the market for it in other places. Even the Virtus's own little cool thing, that mag pouches went flat when empty turned out to be a copy of Maxpedition gear pouches.
Can anyone tell me why they crawl through a window of an uncleared house with an opfor standing in the corner?
Will Marines get this?
They are trialing it
you want logistics join the army, marines make do
The badge on the beret should be worn above the left eye, not at the side of the head.
It seemed to me, to be missing side panel protection the armour carrier?.
+Rikki Wells Hard to tell when they were doing the CQB, however when you see them lined up during the CRBN bit, you can see the instructor has the plates in the side ( @04:48 ) . However it does have side panels for both hard and soft. At least that is what it says.
soldiersystems.net/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/UK-Virtus-program.pdf
Hope that helps.
+UltimateDeliciousPie i hope so mate as if i was wearing armour i would want side plates you never know where a snap ambush is coming from.
+UltimateDeliciousPie I'll find out when my pal has it issued as he times has to have it in the back of his car when he is on courses out of base, i tried on the osprey one it was not bad, fitted me ok but when you shoulder a rifle butt it would slide down never got to shoot with it but it looked like it covered my body well.
+Rikki Wells its scaleable so you can use it with or without side plates depending on the threat levels
I 100% agree with given are soldiers the best kit! but if you ask me it's a complete waste of money. The new mk4 osprey just got issued in 2010 so why didn't they just wait to issue this stuff instead. And what will happen to osprey? But to be honest I mostly see in places like op trident and cold response ECBM being used in mtp, ddpm and dpm so why not just keep that?
+Harry B "Virtus has been three years in the making." I assume that means it wasn't in development when the Mk 4 Ospreys were issued.
+Harry B 2010 was ages ago in the development cycle. So much stuff has changed in the few years, SiB and SiAL armor are lighter, and development of plate carriers that allow much better loading of weight and gear, plus having worn both an IOTV and an Osprey Mk4 I could see how much needed to change. The Osprey's lack of a release is a huge oversight that had to be corrected. The added mobility of a plate carrier alone is worth it though.
again, Virtus was in development for three years, ie late 2012/early 2013. If the MK4 osprey was issued in 2010 then they couldn't wait and issue this kit instead because they hadn't started development for it yet.
+Alec Smith fair enough.
He struggled to get it off..
It’s new and he can’t see where he has to pull.
Yeah, but I reckon it was faster than undoing all the straps and clips
So it's a stab vest?
The guy at 2:26 has a very short sized armour ! It doesn't even cover its belly !
It's a piece of shit anyway, a friend of my fathers said the straps on it broke within a few days into a training exercise and had to go back to his Osprey Armour.
*****
In the present case kidneys are partly protected...
To be fair the dude is a honking 6’5 at least.The average soldier is more like 5’8-5’11.
Just thinking that actually
I’m part of the PARAS in rl
Batt 3 CO
pink shirt ok bud
Appreciate their service but they should follow the dress regulations and the cap badge should be over their left eye no master their regiment unless your like SAS
Um, no? Different branches and sub divisions/regiments wear their berets differently.
Chris Leafe yes they wear them differently but they all are supposed to follow the dress regulations
@@chwanbrambles9372 Yes, but i'm pretty sure having the beret's badge over the left eye isn't 3 rifles' dress regulation.
@@leafie3092 Dress regulations should apply to the entire army. (Obviously this doesn't apply to ceremonial dress.) I have noticed that many soldiers interviewed on this channel warp their berets in all different directions. Same with ToS and caubeens. There is a proper way to wear each of these, but I've seen ToS tugged over to look like a beret, caubeens that look like a small potato sack, and berets pulled so far forward as to have the cap badge facing the ground.
Yea you are correct the way their berets are wore is shocking
Parts made in China ! that's one reason for rejection.
That's one reason to reject the nonsensical system of capitalism. Globalization is no accident, it's systemic. Capitalism will always lead to globalization, no matter how many "restarts" it gets.
How about giving them a decent rifle
The mmodified rifle is an excellent weapon.
With all that MOLLE space. they might finally start moving weight from their belts
Why would they. It is more comfortable
funny how diffrent they wear baret xD
Its funny how you spell it
@@jaker9556 😂😂😂
M8 we wear them correctly u Mericans have a water slide coming off your dead XD
And it's turned out rubbish