Ceramic Ballistic Plates & Modular Body Armor Vest

By Author: ryan albert
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Top of the line body armor vests will typically feature certain properties, namely, being modular, light weight, load-carrying, and thus being a form of equipment. Equipment is something that will aid in accomplishing a task. Equipment is a tool. So, modular body armor vests are more than simply the body armor protection. They are specifically MOLLE vests, or Modular, Lightweight, Load-carrying Equipment. They are tools. The vests can carry other tools inside, outside, and on the sides and shoulders. Inside the fabric there are ceramic ballistic plates or steel armor plates that protect the wearer from gunshot or other projectiles. This article, as it already has begun to do, will help explain some of the dynamic features of MOLLE vests, modular body armor vests.
The fact that these vests are “modular” means that they are structured with different compartments. Those compartments have different ways for being used. The equipment is “light weight,” which means the wearer will not be burdened by the load he must carry from the vest. The ceramic ballistic plates ...
... are ideal because they are dense and durable, yet they do not weigh excessive amounts. Next, there is the fact that the vests are “load-carrying.” This means they must contain pouches, straps, adjustable features, and hooks in order to attach different tools to them. With the ability to easily access their tools from their vests, the modular body armor becomes even more useful and important..
Modular body armor vests and the ceramic ballistic plates inside are technology employed by U.S. forces. They are approved and researched to be the best technology available for a relevant situation. All of the parts of a soldier’s uniform are as MOLLE as possible, so that nothing is for fashion, nothing is without a purpose. The same is for these vests. Everything has a purpose. There is something called “PALS,” which these vests have as a feature as well. PALS are pouch attachment ladder systems. You can attach carrying pouches in a highly-ordered and compact ladder structure. The PALS webbing that is found on modular body armor vests help to create true MOLLE technology. PALS can be attached in different ways that also increases the modularity of the vests