Imperial Tzardom Army - Imperial Vintovki

-Armor-

The most common arrangement for the Imperial Tzardom, within both the Imperial Vintovki of its Imperial Tzardom Army, and the Internal Ministry Vintovki of the Tzardom Internal Ministry, was the 'Tzardom Fiber Bodysuit' paired with the 'Tzardom Composite Plate Vest". For the areas that have recovered fully from the fall of the Tzardom, it has been mostly improved upon or abandoned , but the armor type is very common with remaining petty nobles, warlords, security personnel, rebels, and hardened criminals. During the long history of the Tzardom before it's fall, according to records, this combination was in place without much change or alteration.

The 'Tzardom Fiber Bodysuit', resembles the many different versions of full-body or near full-body high-tensile balistic fiber clothing that through convergent technological evolution, is incredibly plentiful across many systems and reportedly, many dimensions. However, this type of armor is not identical from version to version, and often uses radically different manufacturing methods. The 'Tzardom Fiber Bodysuit', like many comparable versions, is very light and provides minor protection. For the most part, it appears to between cotton and nylon in terms of how much heat it retains or how much it "breathes". The clothing mostly stops fragmentation or light pistol rounds without too much bruising, but can stop moderate handgun rounds with some bruising or broken bones.

The 'Tzardom Composite Plate Vest', is an enlarged version of the standard "Tzardom Hardened Thermoplastic Vest", and is different in how it comes fitted with compartmentalized ceramic plates, which shatter when struck. As the vest is damaged over and over, its protection increasingly diverts back to a standard hardened thermoplastic vest. Comparable versions of this armor are even more plentiful than fiber bodysuits. Some cultures have the armor be entirely a hard rigid vest or suit of specially designed ballistic polymer, "plastic", or shaped ballistic fiber, some have it consist mostly of shaped metal or ceramic alloys, but most have it be ceramic plates within a ballistic fiber vest. The Tzardom version provides fairly consistent protection, and reasonable levels of it as well, be able to stop about half of most encountered infantry service rifles.