Well, there's basic issue gear and then there's the best gear you can get. Face it, the DOD tends to get limited funding for some things and tends to issue basic gear, it's pretty good. The Interceptor armor is a pretty good standard of Armor. It's a level IV ceramic armor plate that's front and back. 10 times better than what most cops except swat team members tend to wear. Level IV armor will stop a 30.06 armor piercing round.
The Dragon Skin armor is very new and very high speed, it's also even more expensive $6000 for a set. It uses little round ceramic and metal plates that are individual components that move better. Its kind of like modern scale mail. the Dragon Skin armor will stop multiple level IV and Level III hits which most other forms of hard body armor start to have problems with because they tend to start to break up. Its a combination of new thinking and some new armor designs as I understand it.
There are similar parallels in the military from packs, to socks to gun equipment. Not necessarily a huge problem but It'd be nice if every soldier in harms way had the most expensive armor you can buy, but then we'd have to part with some other government programs or cut back on some training cycles or something, beyond a certain point in the budget allocation, it' robs peter to pay paul unless you cut other entirely unrelated programs or raise taxes even more.
The soldiers ARE being issued armor, in these cases, these guys bought the Cadillac of body armor.
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The Dragon Skin armor is very new and very high speed, it's also even more expensive $6000 for a set. It uses little round ceramic and metal plates that are individual components that move better. Its kind of like modern scale mail. the Dragon Skin armor will stop multiple level IV and Level III hits which most other forms of hard body armor start to have problems with because they tend to start to break up. Its a combination of new thinking and some new armor designs as I understand it.
There are similar parallels in the military from packs, to socks to gun equipment. Not necessarily a huge problem but It'd be nice if every soldier in harms way had the most expensive armor you can buy, but then we'd have to part with some other government programs or cut back on some training cycles or something, beyond a certain point in the budget allocation, it' robs peter to pay paul unless you cut other entirely unrelated programs or raise taxes even more.
The soldiers ARE being issued armor, in these cases, these guys bought the Cadillac of body armor.