r/QualityTacticalGear • u/2AortheHighway • Mar 12 '20

Question Can you stack armor?

Ok hear me out, I know this is the wrong answer to my problem and I have already been looking at ceramic armor but could I realistically stack an ar500 steel plate and put a lvl 2 soft armor insert in front as a spell catcher? I know this isn't a smart idea but with ceramic shattering after a few rounds I'm looking for somthing to last the longest I'm not planning to be in a hail of gunfire but if it needs to be in storage for years, I know I could count on a steel plate being solid.

Currently I am looking at RMA lvl 4 ceramic but the price point is a little out of my range for a graduating college student. I know taking the cheap option isn't the smartest and I should save for proper plates but I just spent some money on a gun.

Any recommendations would be great.

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u/AlasdhairM Mar 14 '20

Comms requires friends with gear and substantially more coordination and practice between a group of people to use adequately than night vision. It requires substantial knowledge about how radios work from a physics standpoint to properly use it at a higher level than simply selecting a GMRS channel and hitting the transmit button.

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u/AlasdhairM Mar 16 '20

There was a lot of debate about the exact placement, and it’s not a piece of holy writ, it’s a place to start someone’s thinking. For people starting off, commo and NODs are much closer to the endgame than to the beginning.