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

  • @Red_October
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    115 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.

      • SSTF
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        54 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
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      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