A Warsaw police officer with experimental body armour in 1921.

The shield looks very thin. I wonder what it would and wouldn’t stop?

I don’t see any handcuff holders
did they just shoot the first criminal they saw
genuine question

*Insert Adeptus Arbites* i wonder what future playable class this will inspire

Obviously hadn’t heard about Ned Kelly.

So, how’d the experiment go?

u/kallisto19988 what is the source of the picture? I can’t find anything about this picture except social media posts that have the same title as this one, but no articles with information about the armor

Y’know the thing that always bothers me is that mlitary doctrine looses the idea of a curas for just 100 years they look and see the old armors or renaissance, baroque, 18c napoleonic curasiers see the bullet dents signifying that armor protected against bullets… And decided to use crappy looking straight amateur-work plates.

Like i understand trench armor in ww1 that was a shoddy work cobbled up on the go in a desperate bid to provide some form of rotection. But this is post-war and ppl could afford more professional armoring. How did nobody just thaught to build modern 20th century curasier breastplate.

I wonder whether they used this gear while dealing with lech poznan or legia warszawa fans at the time 😆

Looks pretty cool though

ned kelly wore it better