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flak vest

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flak vest [′flak ‚vest]
(engineering)


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They said, 'Come out with your hands up,'" he said as he stood outside his home and police clad in flak vests gathered in the street.
George Allen of Virginia vote against supplying American troops with modern body armor and instead send them into battle with flak vests "left over from the Vietnam War"?
By comparison, the "flak vest" of Vietnam came in at about 25 pounds, and the original flak vest worn by airmen during World War II weighed around 40 pounds, Air Force Museum officials said.
 
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