Soft vests are made of many layers of woven or laminated fibres and can protect the wearer from small calibre handgun and shotgun projectiles and small.
How to make bulletproof ceramic plates.
Shooting the diy plate armor.
The big problem is usually dealing with the weight.
Not only is fiberglass highly durable but it can also be cut and drilled in the field using ordinary power tools.
The goal of this project is to help you create a type iia bulletproof body armor using only simple.
Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it.
Fiberglass armor seems to be the better choice when it comes to making your own bulletproof body armor.
I used a steel i beam piece a ceramic floor tile duck tape and a can of plastidip.
This thing is heavy.
If you re a fan of diy projects you re going to love this one.
Three quarter inch thick ceramic plates over level iiia soft body armor is considered effective for level iii armor against rifles.
The cost for this was around 30.
Ceramic plates are commonly used as inserts in soft ballistic vests most ceramic plates used in body armor provide national institute of justice type iii protection allowing them to stop rifle bullets.
The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
By using porcelain tile.
The ceramic tile was demolished.
In a shtf i would wear one of my diy ballistic plates over wearing nothing.
And tough as a hell.
For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.
Fiberglass is lighter making it easier to handle compared to ceramic and steel armor plates.
A number of different successful ballistic armor designs have been done with ceramic plates installed.
Fiberglass is lighter making it easier to handle compared to ceramic and steel armor plates.
No bullets got through the plate.
Building your own bulletproof body armor plate.
A ceramic plate is usually slipped into the outer layer of a.
Proper ballistic plates are made from boron carbide a ceramic which rates a level 9 on the hoh s hardness scale.
Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.