Navy Helicopter Crews May Be Getting a New Armored Survival Vest
16 Feb 2021
Military.com | By Hope Hodge Seck
The Navy is shopping for a new armored vest for helicopter pilots and crew members -- and is asking manufacturers to submit their best design proposals.
According to a solicitation published on the official U.S. federal contracting site, Naval Air Systems Command is looking for a vest capable of protecting crews from hostile fires, and ensuring water survival in case of a maritime emergency.
"The overall design priority for all operators is that the vest cut and compactness enable the wearer to be highly mobile for in-cockpit visual scanning and physical movement as well as post-crash survival and evasion scenarios, including the ability to rapidly jettison a negatively buoyant hard plate in water," officials wrote in the solicitation.
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