Defense Ministry testing special 'floating body armor' for special forces
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has started testing special modular body armor for the needs of the Navy and Engineering Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the ministry's press service said.
It is noted that the peculiarity of such a body armor is that upon contact with water, a special module reacts and the body armor acts as a life-saving one.
"The Ministry of Defense received a request to develop such a special module for body armor. The key task is to protect the lives of military personnel on the water. After all, we understand how much weight a soldier carries, especially when it comes to special forces," Deputy Defense Minister Vitaliy Polovenko said.
The new floating module is being developed by the Central Directorate for the Development of Material Support for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Both foreign and domestic developers were involved in its creation. It is planned that such modules can be used on all approved models of armored vests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
"We have now handed over several samples of such 'floating body armor' to units for testing. If this stage is successful, we will begin laboratory tests," Polovenko said.