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submitted 15 hours ago by ericbomb@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

Just because a plate stopped a bullet, doesn't mean the plate then distributed that force evenly across it's whole surface. The bulge on the back side of an impacted plate doesn't form gently.

[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 6 points 4 hours ago

To add to your point, trauma pads exist to help mitigate this. Blunt force trauma is no joke.

[-] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

Backface soft armor also catches spall, which can be very dangerous itself. Even ceramic plates can have a danger of ceramic shards. I believe modern ESAPIs, XSAPIs, and such modern plates are designed stand alone, but original SAPIs carried a warning that their rating was only in conjunction with soft armor.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world -1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Maybe on a plate from 1965 that is just a sheet of steel inside cloth. Modern ceramic plates spread the energy of the impact.

Here's a video of a Level IV plate taking a 30.06 AP round followed by like 6 5.56 AP rounds and a 7.62x54R AP round so powerful it jammed the rifle.

There's no significant plate bulge even after all of that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D1qLZwBeMuM

this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2024
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