How To Make Ceramic Ballistic Plates

For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.

How to make ceramic ballistic plates.

Bulletsafe strives to make great protection available for everyone. Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it. Three quarter inch thick ceramic plates over level iiia soft body armor is considered effective for level iii armor against rifles. Ceramic is brittle which makes it sensitive to shock.

That is why we provide the lightweight protection of a ceramic plate for the price of a heavy steel plate. So on its own it offers very little ballistic protection. The ballistic plate comes in one size. Ceramic body armor is usually backed by metal plates and may come with or without a composite layer in between.

Shooting the diy plate armor. The downside with a steel armor is its weight. Ceramic plates are a form of composite armor insert plates may also be made of steel or ultra high molecular weight polyethylene. Compared to ceramic armor steel body plates offer more resistance and protection.

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 ballistic plate is only 169. 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. The plate was built with a steel i beam a ceramic floor tile duck tape and plastidip.

However in composite systems such as ceramic polymer composites ceramic has largely replaced the steels previously used for personnel and vehicle protection. Level iv multi hit rifle ceramic body armor plates use a monolithic piece of ceramic that can produce small cracks throughout the body armor plate when hit by an m2ap round. These small cracks can drastically decrease the integrity of the plate and reduce its chances of defeating multiple rounds. The big problem is usually dealing with the weight.

A number of different successful ballistic armor designs have been done with ceramic plates installed. The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. The bulletsafe ballistic plate fits securely in the pocket of the bulletsafe bullet proof vest. No bullets got through the plate.

The ceramic tile was demolished.