If you examine it at face value it seems absurd

it's how many they can take

@|||ST yes

thats how it works

its or, not and

don't listen to anyone else

listen to me

it helps for the plate to build up resistance with the smaller rounds

Is that impacts in the same location?

@CTL all those rounds on the same plate or nah?

Pistols kill far more than any other weapon. Cops didn't used to have ready access to lightweight high level armor. AP handgun rounds could penetrate their soft panels. Banned. It's still an infringement, but the argument for officer safety is pretty strong.

go read the testing criteria

*ahem*

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/223054.pdf

Tldr that for me

yes? @|||ST

tf kind of question is that

😎

no i mean like

yes

Youre telling me that plate can take all 36 of those rounds?

the tl;dr is the NIJ test is a single round of 30-06, tested in a couple different ways on different plates

w2c

Hesco just tests their plates separately and tells you how many rounds of a given caliber it takes to compromise the plate

normally you take self-certified plate tests with a grain of salt, but the plate has already passed the NIJ test so you have nothing to lose by believing hesco's in-house ratings

no

it's "or"

not "and"

oh ok

that's what they're rated to

it could probably take more

i wonder if hesco follows the NIJ back face deformation criteria for that test. i would assume so

typically composite plates will go a lot further than 6 rounds if you dont count BFD

I mean bfd or not if you get hit 6 times in a row im sure youre gonna have some internal bleeding

Or a wicked mad bruise

depends on the round

6 rounds of 30.06

?

You'd have to be pretty close range for even a skilled operator to make 6 quick hits to your torso