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Originally Posted by Doody well, the plates protects the cheast and back, a wound is very leathal. Unfortunately, you cannot protect everywhere. If you did, you would not be able to function as a soldier. The rest of the vest is made out of the same material as the old flak jackets. It's not designed to stop an assualt rifle round. However, it might slow it down or deflect it a bit. There have been inprovemtns to the Inteceptor, I have seen pictures of arm guards (as shown in BD's picture) and side plates not too long ago. Basically, the vest prevents soldiers from getting that sucking chest wound that few live through.
Just remember, there will always be weak points in any armor system. This has held true to back when armor was first used in combat. |
It's also true on even the most heavily armored things in the world like the M1 Abrams tank.
As for the femoral atery, what % of KIA soldiers die from that kind of wound as oposed to a center-of-mass wound like the Interceptor body armor would protect against. That would be an interesting statistic.