How To Make Ceramic Armor Plates

Best ceramic level iv body armor.

How to make ceramic armor plates.

The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. Most ceramic armors are made using silicon carbide alumina titanium diboride and boron carbide. Ceramic body armor is usually backed by metal plates and may come with or without a composite layer in between. Make sure the floor tile is pei5 rated as that is a hardness rating of the tile and it increases the ability of the armor plate to stop the bullet.

Royal nonesuch back at it with the diy this time in the protection field. I don t see why that wouldn t. Us crow by cmf contributor barnes. No bullets got through the plate.

People were making some good suggestions in the comments to line x truck bedliner some plates together with an ar500 steel outer plate. Body armor and ballistic plates should be standard ppe in accordance to mopp standards for your team the presence of hostile elements in all disasters man made or natural is an eternal truth having access to these plates will make the difference between life and death. Ceramic floor tile pei5 available at lowes or home depot. As expected one hit was pretty much the threshold for ceramic.

Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it. Purchase commercially available body armor if you need protection. Homemade ceramic body armor plates. The ceramic tile was demolished.

The materials used were. Shooting the diy plate armor. Ar500 level iv ceramic. For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.

Like the ar500 steel plates you can find their ceramic plates in a variety of cuts and sizes. Three quarter inch thick ceramic plates over level iiia soft body armor is considered effective for level iii armor against rifles. The big problem is usually dealing with the weight. Doing so can result in serious injury or death if you were to get shot and the armor fails.

In this video i show you the complete process i use to make a curved ballistic plate insert that could be used in a plate carrier. A number of different successful ballistic armor designs have been done with ceramic plates installed. Compared to ceramic armor steel. Do not construct armor plates for personal use.