Steel bib CH42 (Стальной нагрудник СН42) М3-124-S

They were mainly equipped with engineering assault brigades. Withstood the hit of pistol and machine gun bullets, small fragments. Cases of hitting 9-mm pistol bullets at close range without harm to the fighter are described. Steel, due to its smoothness and strength, could also sometimes deflect 7.92 mm rifle bullets and bayonet strikes, but only with a tangential hit at a high angle. Soldiers usually wore this “shell” on a quilted jacket with torn sleeves, which served as an additional shock absorber, despite the fact that the breastplate had a special lining on the inside. Not bad proved itself in urban battles.