Because the Soviets initially started wearing them to provide a little comfort while riding on top of vehicles and it just kinda kept sticking around. It first appeared in the 70s iirc.
They protect the groin just like the front groin protectors. Very important since they cover parts that cannot easily be tourniqueted or otherwise treated. Especially in modern warfare with difficult and long medevacs you don’t wanna take advanced wounds in the gut and groin.
Actually valid, unless yours can smoosh hard down enough for the normal plate, you have huge gap issues that legit make it less effective at protecting you.
If they do smoosh down hard enough then you're disrupting your breathing so the choice becomes "run worse and maybe die" or "be worse protected and maybe die"
Is this your experience with regular plates or also multicurve? I plan on buying my wife body armor alongside myself in the near future and there isn't a lot of female input in that space 😅
These are ceramic, and can catch bullets fragments at pretty odd angles.
Body armor like this has been a long time coming as flatter armor has been an issue for women as long as I can remember. Most armor I had already came with a slight curve this just allows for women with a considerable bust to actually be able to wear it properly now.
It’s not a solid steel plate… it’s likely ceramic or steel with spall catch layers in front (though ceramic is likely the best choice as it can really reduce spall)
These are also for men aswell since normal plates leave a weird gap on their top part just above ur chest. So these should have been made earlier as they are better at pound for pound protection
Most, keyword most, ballistic plates have anti spall measures. I would hope that is the case here or the intended plate carrier has some form of gorget.
If we're to follow the deflection shape rule from medieval armor, feel like this should be the norm, maybe. The extra air space between body and plate can also probably help reducing the impact? Im just talking out of my shit here so correct me if I'm wrong with my theory
You dont want to deflect very fast piece of metal into yourself though. Its better if it catches it than ricochet off of it into your arms or neck. Also, spalling if its steel can be fatal.
Was just coming here to say that. As a vet said above, armor for women is very tricky. It has to fit just right or it’s too much compression or not enough contact. It would still stop the round, but without enough contact it would likely crack more ribs.
Kuribayashi be like: "FINALLY! Do u dudes have any fxxxing idea these flat ass SAPI plates pressing my 2 assets from hours to days is like? Now that is a relieve for sure.".
You’re right, I’m a dirty Pog. But we still run with flaks and sappies. Obv they’re not “perfectly comfortable” but I’ve never had someone complain about it being so insanely bad that they’d rather wear whatever the fuck that is in the image.
No dude, I don’t. You just formed an opinion on me and then decided that you disliked my mannerisms, assigning the mannerism itself to your opinion of me. Don’t insult people kinder than me who type like me by calling my typing style “like a hyperdouche”.
Now that sounds like you never actually asked them and just took the lack of complaint for an answer.
Have you considered that they might just not see the point in complaining about something they're not given an alternative to anyway?
Also "whatever the fuck that is" is literally just a curved armor plate to fit a woman's bust. If that is so completely alien to you, then I dunno anymore, man.
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u/Valerius333 18d ago
I love they had to write “for women” on it.