Bulletproof vest
Bulletproof vest

BULLETPROOF VEST



How does a bulletproof vest work?

Introduction

A bulletproof vest, is also, recognized as a ballistic vest or a bullet-resistant vest. It is an item of body armor that helps soak up the force and reduce or discontinue penetration to the chest from firearm-fired projectiles and disintegration from explosions. The vest may come in a mild form, as worn out by many police officers, prison guards, security guards, and some private citizens. Poke guards and police may be dressed in soft vests that resist knife attack attacks, using metallic components. Special operations forces dress in hard armor, either in combination with soft armor or alone. This allows for a shield against rifle ammunition or fragmentation.

History
In 1538, Francesco Maria Della Revere specially made Filipe Nearly to create a bulletproof jacket. In 1561, Maximilian II, the Roman ruler is recorded as trying his armor beside gunfire. in the same way, in 1590 Sir Henry Lee probable his Greenwich armor to be "pistol-proof". Its real efficiency was contentious at the time.

During the English Civil Conflict, Oliver Cromwell's Ironsides cavalry was ready with Cape line helmets and musket-proof cuirasses which consisted of two layers of armor plate (in later studies involving X-ray a third layer was exposed which was located in between the external and internal layer. The outer layer was intended to suck up the shot energy and the thicker inner layer stopped further penetration. The armor would remain poorly spoiled but still useful.

The idea of bulletproofing is older than bullets. The idea that you could defend physically against your enemy's weapons goes all the way back to the shield armor and protective covering of medieval Knights. Further back than that in fact it goes back to the leather armor of Roman soldiers all this stuff was quite good against swords and battle axes trouble was as weapons became more powerful and more accurate. So armor had to become tougher and that meant heavier by the time the first gunpowder musket had reached Europe.

Present
The regulating agency sets the threat levels for body armor that has to do with so they have threat levels rated from 1 all the way up to 4 so level 1 2 2 3 3 4, with those levels in mind everything up to that 3a is going to be soft armor and 3 all the way up to 4 are going to be your hard armors. When you're selecting body armor it's important to understand what threats you're coming up with.

The majority of people who are looking to purchase body armor are not coming up against rifle threats is it a possibility absolutely but it's not something that's super common? If you look at the statistics for murder in most countries almost 63 percent of all murders are committed with handguns and then the rest are rifles and shotguns. In some of the other categories obviously, looking at body armor it's always going to be a toss-up between convenience comfort, and mobility versus protection level. 

The higher the protection level the thicker the armor will get the less. It bends and moves with you and the heavier will get while that 8 pounds might not seem like a big deal with meat in front of the screen having worn it all day for several days it gets very tiring very quickly so it's all a toss-up.

Obviously, the most protection you can get is one of those bomb suits but you're not going to be able to wear that every day and just walk around and even accomplish the mission you have to so it's imperative to take that into account the first set of armor. 

I want to say about your internal concealed soft armor which is super common for law enforcement to wear on duty it's something that goes right under the uniform. It doesn't look very obtrusive a lot of departments are really concerned about public perception and the dude walking around in the external carrier tends to look a little bit more aggressive whatever is best for the officer's back and safety is the right way to go.

The level 2 armor will protect you against a lot of handguns so in here you have a strike plate that will protect you a little bit better than the vest itself and that goes right over your heart and protects a few of your lungs and your great vessels that's why that's super nice. This vest also offers a lot of wraparound coverage so this actually covers your side very well. It comes down pretty far and covers a good portion of your abdomen.

Pretty easy to size so this is an awesome option one of the downsides to this is that you can't just take it on and off throughout the day. Put this on then you put a shirt over it if you want to take this off you're gonna have to basically disrobe so it's not super convenient for that and really is only going to be good if you've planned to wear this for the rest of the day or for an extended period of time. They are pretty comfortable now the other disadvantage is that this cannot carry anything on the outside it's armored and that's all.

It is soft armor that comes in Journal carriers so it is one of the safe life defenses. Actually 3a so it is a step above armor for the internal carrier and it's actually 3/8 plus so it will protect you against some stabs and some sharp objects which is really nice in these vests. It is nice because it can carry things on the outside and can also take it off pretty quickly say get it home or back to the base just throw this off and then throw it back to you about to go on another call or something like that if you can put a med kit on the front or some other carrying options. If you're in law enforcement you can put your magazines your taser mounts on their handcuffs and get all that weight off your belt.

The other really nice thing is that it's got very clear identification. It says exactly what this particular vest you can get in a bunch of different colors and schemes so it'll work well for that now external carriers. You get this weight off your belt a lot of back injuries are caused by those duty belts that dutymen wear that's a lot of weight on their waist and it's really bad for you. 

A lot of departments are starting to switch to external carriers for that reason now you notice this has almost the exact same coverage as the other soft armor blocks on the side there, so, it is a good option for that coverage.

It comes down pretty low and then the other thing you'll notice about this vest is if you want to up its protection you can actually slide hard plates down level 4 or level 3 plates into the front of the vest and give a little bit more protection if you believe to be facing a rifle threat. Now, this armor is a little bit less mobile than your two armor you know it's just a little bit thicker a little bit stiffer you know sticks out a little bit more so keep that in mind with this, however, this will still move with you pretty well and allow you to accomplish your missions. 

It's a good balance between protection and mobility however it does look a little bit more intrusive and spy agencies are going to be pretty hesitant to let you wear an external carrier because it does look relatively aggressive and the separation between law enforcement and enemy in the field is something that's perceived as very important for your corrections personnel or somebody that works. In confined spaces with prisoners, you want a vest that has some kind of stab protection in it just because it'll stop a bullet does not mean it will stop a knife or a shank of some kind so make sure of your corrections. 

Getting something that does stop those threats it's actually a different accrediting agency that does your stab protection so make sure you look into that a lot of that has to do with the force distribution of a bullet and the way the materials are made. This vest will protect against stab ratings which is why the vest is worn in the ambulance, wearing this in EMS is because right next to a patient chance going to getting stabbed not necessarily shot so something that has that capability for one of the most popular vests on the market, especially for law enforcement are going to be plate carriers but really these is not the best option for armor for a lot of reasons.

Korean soldiers work by deform on crash this increases the area of the bullet and allows it to do more damage but it's also the bullet's weakness as the Koreans worked out whilst being shot at by the French they worked out how to make lightweight protection from layers of folded cotton causing the bullet to deform just before it reached flesh and blood and causing the energy to be dissipated as it tried to force its way through the lower levels when the Americans fought the Koreans quite soon afterward they captured one of these vests and took it home for analysis. It worked and the idea quite quickly spread interestingly. 

Archduke Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was wearing one of these bulletproof vests when a nationalist Serbian assassin shot him in 1914. Unfortunately, Archduke the assassin had the good sense to shoot him in the neck thus starting the First World War by the 1920s bulletproofing was definitely trendy in America where prearranged criminals adopted these hooligan vests to defend themselves against competitor gangs, and course, the feds this lead to a genus of arms race with more powerful ammunition being urbanized to go through better bulletproof vests leading at the end to the development of the infamous Magnum round providing protection against comparatively slow handgun bullets isn't such a problem it's reckoned that since 1973. 

The problem is trying to provide protection against high-velocity rifle rounds and bits of shrapnel as found on the backcloth vests simply aren't high-quality enough for this so modern bulletproof vest incorporates metal or ceramic plates as well so now once again we come up against the ancient problem of weight a modern body armor vest can weigh as much as 15 killers.