I’m aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

  • @Nasan@sopuli.xyz
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    76 months ago

    To add to your point, trauma pads exist to help mitigate this. Blunt force trauma is no joke.

    • SSTF
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      56 months ago

      Backface soft armor also catches spall, which can be very dangerous itself. Even ceramic plates can have a danger of ceramic shards. I believe modern ESAPIs, XSAPIs, and such modern plates are designed stand alone, but original SAPIs carried a warning that their rating was only in conjunction with soft armor.