From: Darrell Ramsell (daram@comcast.net)
Date: Thu Oct 20 2005 - 02:34:45 PDT
To all of you who requested a picture of the door. I'm going to retake the
picture in 5mb so you can blow it up for a closer look and put post it note
so you can see what bullets did what. I should get this done by tomorrow.
Darrell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darrell Ramsell" <daram@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:04 PM
Subject: [MV] HMMWV door
> Gents
>
> Last weekend I took an old armored up HMMWV door that wasn't really worth
> saving to Reno to see how well it would stand up against real steel. My
> buddies and I used 9mm, .45, 5.56 (Ball & AP) & a .308. Unfortunately the
> door did not hold up very well. I did okay against pistol rounds but the
> 5.56 ball rounds went right through & the AP rounds left nice clean holes.
> The armored glass did even worse. It seemd to have stopped the 9mm but
> not the .45. Everything else went right through. I know the doord were
> designed primarly to stop fragmentation but I was still hoping they would
> stand up better against bullets. I understand now why they upgraded them.
>
> I did take pictures so if anyone wants them I'll send them to you.
>
> Darrell
>
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