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Stand-Alone Ceramic Level IV Rifle Plate
Soft Body Armor vests (e.g., Kevlar) are excellent for fragmentation and pistol protection but will NOT stop rifle bullets. (Even Level III-A is only tested to stop pistol-caliber threats such as 9mm SUB-machine-gun or .44 Magnum.)
Plates, also described as Small Arms Protective Inserts or SAPI, are best deployed in Rifle Plate Pockets on the outershell carrier of Tactical Vests or, more discreetly, in our ProMAX Concealable with Rifle Plate Pockets.
Rifle Plates may also be used in a stand-alone configuration – as appropriate for the threat – with a stand-alone Rifle Plates Carrier Harness (very handy if your vest doesn't have Rifle Plate Pockets).
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Specifications:
Thickness: .7 inches
Size: 10 inches X 12 inches
Weight: 7 lbs
Level IV Protection By Itself
Level IV plate armor is a very serious armor made especially to be effective against armor-piercing rounds. This armor will offer excellent protect against all pistol rounds, and and common rifle rounds, and is effective against .30 Armor Piercing bullets (166 grain) at a velocity of 2,850 FPS. This armor is also effective against all threats mentioned in the Soft Armors Category (Levels I-A - III-A) as well as Level III. This body armor provides the highest level of protection currently available. Because this armor is intended to resist “armor piercing” bullets, it often uses ceramic materials. Such materials are brittle in nature and may provide only single-shot protection, since the ceramic tends to break up when struck. As with Type III armor, Type IV armor is clearly intended only for tactical situations where threats from snipers and heavy fighting are assured. |
