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Your infantry can wear thick body armor if you want. This body armor would be more like thick metal plates sewn into pouches, it would be heavy, cumbersome, expensive, and have difficulty with high velocity rounds though of some effectiveness against pistol rounds and ricochets.
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Glorious, that is exactly what I was looking at, though the plates would be more on the outside with a form of flak vest as the backer. High-velocity rounds are definitely a thing that will be a problem with it, though that goes without saying. Here is an image of what I was referring to, just to be a little clearer though:

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