How Ceramic Bullet Proof Plates Protect You from Strong Ballistic Impact

What are ceramic bullet proof plates?

As mentioned, hard armor is made of ceramic or dyneema or metal plates. With soft armor, when the projectile is released and impacts into the body armor, the bullet is caught in a web of very strong ballistic fiber. These fibers help soak up and disperse the impact energy that is transferred to the bullet proof armor causing the bullet to mushroom.

How do ceramic bullet proof plates work?

Once it hits the plates, the projectile impact is then decelerated until it reaches its full stop. With the help of the strength of each individual layer of materials, the projectile has a larger room for energy dispersal hence keeping the bullets from penetrating deeply. This is the advantage of adding ceramic bullet proof plates to your ballistic vest, it will minimize the impact causing blunt force trauma to the person. Further injuries may be evaded because of this.

The Benefits of Using Ceramic Bullet Proof Plates

Hard armor is cumbersome, but with ceramic plates they are now much lighter than what our warriors and militaries used to wear, the metal plates. Today, our squat team, law enforcers, military officers, can now move with ease and are much more comfortable wearing it because of its light weight. They don’t have to be distracted with its heft and movements are not so restricted anymore. Thus, they are more efficient nowadays than they used to. Ergo, they can wear their body armor anytime and in much longer timeframe. The heat is also leaser than before.

Remember that the manufacture of ceramic bullet proof plates varies from one maker to the other. Some manufacturers combine or compress the layers with bias stitches around the edges while others are using the tack stitch technique in various locations. There are also some who assembles the fabric with a number of rows of vertical or horizontal stitching. You can also find quilting of the entire ballistic plates.

This calls no threat, as of today there are no known complaints about stitches causing impairment of the resistance capacity or features of the bullet proof vest. This is not much of a concern. The main concern here is wearing the right kind of ballistic vest. Another type of plates is what we call SAPI plates. They give the same protection as that of ceramic plates.