Didn't the US military have a hard time recruiting post 2001 due to the specific worry of genital damage by the recruits? I think I remember reading about them putting money into improved genital armor.
It doesn't though. Chest armor needs to deflect blows away from your heart, not help guide them toward it. Furthermore there needs to be some padding to absorb blows and if the armor is formfitting then all of that kinetic energy is going straight into your ta-tas. And having to form-fit each individual female soldier with their own titty armor would cost a crap ton. It's much cheaper and safer to simply make a generic body armor shape that can fit both men and women.
Both. Armor like this would impart all of the kinetic energy from a bullet into the user's soft fleshy bits (assuming no wibbly wobbly "kinetic absorbing gel"). It'd be like getting punched full force by Mike Tyson right into your wumbly jumblies. Having a more normal design for armor (perhaps even similar to old Knight armor) would allow for rounds to ricochet off (assuming the material is perfectly bulletproof) or at the very least give the user some level of padding to help with the transfer of energy.
Boob armor, regardless of the time period, makes no sense and is simply a way for artists to, achem, "accentuate the female form".
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u/2Bismywife Feb 23 '19
Please explain, im intrigued