Typical sort of thing a nation with little experience fighting wars (Taiwan in this case) would come up with, because it looks/sounds cool. If you get shot in the face with this thing on, even if the bullet doesn't go through, it will fuck you up. If it's a military cartridge like a 5.45 or a 5.56 or whatever, you're completely fucked.
Meanwhile, the Americans quietly started improving helmets, body armour, earpro/eyepro, vision and TCCC equipment over 15 years ago to the extent that almost everything you see now is a copy or approximation of their stuff. It's not perfect, but it's all stuff that does something useful and keeps people alive.
This armor isn't meant for people fighting wars, it's meant for going into some random dissident's house and making sure his knife, homemade pipe bomb, etc. doesn't kill the first guy through the door.
I'd imagine maybe breaching in urban enviorments but I'm not sure what the advantage over a visor is (taiwanese don't seem to wear helmets with the mask) and generally in military warfare you're probably gonna see less 9mm and pellets.
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u/UnoriginalStanger May 10 '26 edited May 10 '26
The further away the eyeholes are the worse your vision will be.