Woohoo!! Free stuff!!!!
DIBS!
Woohoo!! Free stuff!!!!
No problem! Full disclosure, during the “transfer”, you may feel a little pressure, bordering on pain. The good part is, he doesn’t need to see your INDL or LTCH.DIBS!
I had steel plates for a while then when i got a job with the possibility of being shot and realized how easy it is to defeat steel armor i went to paraclete and rma plates. Im happy with both. Ive shot a rma plate before and it held up good and they are fairly affordable.
There is more to spalling than what is depicted in that image. When a high speed projectile hits a steel plate, it's possible for the impact to transmit enough energy and momentum to cause metal fragments from the back side of the plate to be projected in toward the wearer. This is what is likely to harm you with an uncoated steel plate and no soft armor behind it. Fragments from the front side could do some damage, but they're typically moving away from the wearer.
Some anti-tank weapons are designed to use this spalling phenomenon to kill the occupants of the tank when penetrating the armor would be more difficult or impossible. The projectile is design to impact the surface of the tank and the end result is metal fragments emitted from the interior side and into the crew.
If your plates are not designed to be stand-alone (i.e. worn without soft armor between you and the plate), then you NEED adequate soft armor between you and the plate.
Also, there are now polypropylene plates that perform well against center fire rifle hits and are much lighter than ceramic plates. That's where I would focus my interest.
There is more to spalling than what is depicted in that image. When a high speed projectile hits a steel plate, it's possible for the impact to transmit enough energy and momentum to cause metal fragments from the back side of the plate to be projected in toward the wearer. This is what is likely to harm you with an uncoated steel plate and no soft armor behind it. Fragments from the front side could do some damage, but they're typically moving away from the wearer.
Some anti-tank weapons are designed to use this spalling phenomenon to kill the occupants of the tank when penetrating the armor would be more difficult or impossible. The projectile is design to impact the surface of the tank and the end result is metal fragments emitted from the interior side and into the crew.
If your plates are not designed to be stand-alone (i.e. worn without soft armor between you and the plate), then you NEED adequate soft armor between you and the plate.
Also, there are now polypropylene plates that perform well against center fire rifle hits and are much lighter than ceramic plates. That's where I would focus my interest.
So I'm curious how many of you that have purchased "hard" body armor feel that it was a good purchase?
So I'm curious how many of you that have purchased "hard" body armor feel that it was a good purchase?
That seems like a really good deal to me. I've never heard of that company but it's hard to mess up steel plates. It looks like there might be some sort of spall coating on them maybe.
Don't forget to put together a good first aid bag as part of your preps. Something that gets over looked occasionally.
We utilize a Rhino Linings Industrial product that is recommended and developed specifically for anti-splatter (spalling) mitigation by Rhino Linings Military Research and Development. This is a premium coating that costs 30% more than standard truck bed liner coatings provided by others. The only other product on the market that is equal in properties is Line-X PAXCON.
You should be fine with something like this
I keep an inexpensive plate carrier with coated AR500 plates next to the bed, along with the carbine. It isn't going on patrol, so weight isn't an issue. It's just there to gain an advantage over a home intruder(s). When Red Dawn/WW Z comes (lol) I'll have more important things on my mind than walking down abandoned streets doing my best Chris Kyle impression.