AR500 Plates

Painkillers said:
After you've done that, you may as well just buy ceramic, no?
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Have you seen multi hit comparison between steel and ceramic ? If you can handle the extra weight of the AR500 plate it's the way to go in a any scenario because a ceramic plate is pretty much done if it gets a couple hits. Assuming you survive the fight.
 
Ceramic plates tend to have a shorter shelf life, from my research as well as sustaining less concentrated fire. If you want to leave them in the bunker for 10 years, go with steel.
 
I know it’s a long shot asking as I’m sure the demand would be low by comparison but any chance on these in 11x14 (or 12x16)? I doubt it but never hurts to ask.
 
We are only going to be going with 10x12 plates.

We may end up offering some of these just as the raw metal with angles cut and rounded if there is interest.

The weight of these is about 10 LBS each. The completly destroy a 223 Green tip will hardly show a dent.

CanArmor are great plates, we have sold them as well. The difference between them is that ours will be a bit thicker, flat, and the finish will not be a nice. A few pros and cons.


We will post details on the ceramic plates only when they are instore.

We will have some new options for the level 3 plate vests combos in a few days, we are working on.
 
The polyurethane plates that we had sold previous are all gone now. We do have an option of bonding 2 half plates together to make up the vests as we had done previous and possible add a Kevlar panel to them. The advantage is that they will be curved and have an inner Kevlar lining and foam padding, the disadvantage is they will have a seam on them and will cost a bit more. They do take time to put together properly so we will not be able to make very many at a time.
 
hi, if you have a bare steel plate you can put a foam backer(to protect from the concussive force) on the towards body side and a bunch of scrap kevlar or maybe layers of heavy canvas(maybe glued together with shoe goo)

that along with the plate carrier should offer some protection from spall, it's all about trapping the "splash" in a trap of fabric as the entry hole will be smaller than the resulting spall direction, the rubber works by directing spall back outward enough to avoid the face by providing a small crater to contain the spall before the bullet hits the plate and fragments

in ceramic it punches a big hole and severly damages it usually with some deformation or sever deformation, the higher the cal the worse it is. it does absorb more of the kinetic energy though than steel does so less concussive effect.

there's pro's and cons to anything i suppose. biggest downside to steel is weight that could be used to carry extra amunition or water
 
We have added some more of the Level 3 Vests from a Previous Thread. These will start shipping next week. They are a bit different than last time.




We also have some level 3A soft armor vests available this week. These use 2 panels from Italian Surplus vests in level 3A.


 
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