Flak Jacket

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• Rating 1 versus General
• Rating 2 versus Ballistic
• Strength 1
• Defense –1,
• Speed 0
• Resources Cost: 1

People assume that a bulletproof vest and a flak jacket are the same thing, but they aren’t. Most cops or Marines wouldn’t want to be caught dead wearing flak jackets. Popular during the Vietnam and Korean Wars, flak jackets are now outmoded technology. They were supposed to stop bullets and explosive shrapnel, but failed to do so to the level the military promised. Some flak and low-caliber bullets couldn’t penetrate the vest. The rest punched clean through and into the tender flesh of the unsuspecting soldier.

A flak jacket isn’t technically bulletproof. It stops some bullets, but any damage taken over its Rating is still lethal, not bashing. The bullet’s impact isn’t diminished over the entire vest, as is with true bulletproof armor, and the bullet can still cut through the material and into the body.

Flak jackets can be purchased at Army/Navy stores, at flea markets or on the Internet.

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