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The vest consists of front and rear panels with pockets for BALCS or SPEAR-cut soft armor panels and standard-issue SAPI (Small Arms Protective Insert) plates. This gives the wearer up to NIJ Level IV protection on the front and back and Level IIIA protection on the sides.
Armor Level Protection HG1/A: This armor would protect against six (three for S-sized panel) hits, fired from 5 meters, of: 8.0±0.1 g (123±1.54 gr) 9×19mm Parabellum DM11 FMJ round-nose lead-core bullets at a velocity of 365±10 m/s; 10.2±0.1 g (158±1.54 gr) .357 Magnum R375M3 JSP bullets at a velocity of 390±10 m/s; HG1
A fully loaded vest with armor plates can prove quite heavy, and is typically used only in high-risk direct action (DA) missions. The Combat Integrated Releasable Armor System (CIRAS) suite of equipment manufactured by Eagle Industries is currently the new FSBE II system, and has replaced the FSBE AAVs.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Composite Armor tested in accordance with STANAG 4569 Kinetic Energy Level 3 specifications. ... Composite Armor tested in ...
A call for a next generation plate, to stop even greater velocity threats than the ESAPI plate was issued by the U.S. Army in 2008. [5] The X Threat Small Arms Protective Insert plates are specifically allowed scalar or flexible systems, and asked for better coverage, with less than a pound of additional weight.
The soft kevlar panels have been tested to stop 9 mm 124 grain full metal jacket bullets at 1,400 ft/s (426 m/s) with minimal deformation and has a V-50 of roughly 1,525 ft/s (465 m/s). This means that the bullet has to be traveling faster than 1,525 ft/s (465 m/s) for it to have more than a 50% chance of breaking through the soft armor panel.
The level of protection can be increased or decreased depending on the threat environment by adding or removing soft armour pads and hard ballistic plates. Unlike the Osprey's Velcro straps, the Virtus has a chest-positioned pin quick-release mechanism that releases the entire body kit when pulled for safe extraction in hazardous situations.
[1] [5] Weight with frontal steel and fabric back panels is 7.9 kg. [2] Сeramic armor panel (level IV protection, variant called 6B23-2) with The Granit-4M provides protection against armor-piercing incendiary bullets from an AKM assault rifle (cartridge 57-B3-231) from a distance of 50 m and bullets from an SVD rifle (cartridge 7N13 or 7-B3-3 ...