Excellent post, but I will point out good steel plates will have anti-spalling coating to contain the shrapnel.
Excellent post, but I will point out good steel plates will have anti-spalling coating to contain the shrapnel.
That coating doesn't do shit. Watch the Nokia video in this thread. The spall spreads out from point of impact and travels parallel to the plate surface. On a coated steel plate all the spall does is delaminate the coating, and exits at the edge of the plate. You'll fuck up your arms, neck, and chin. Great way to become a casualty.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, buying extra-thick coating moves AR500 steel plates into budget ceramic territory, so just fucking buy ceramics.
That coating doesn't do shit. Watch the Nokia video in this thread. The spall spreads out from point of impact and travels parallel to the plate surface. On a coated steel plate all the spall does is delaminate the coating, and exits at the edge of the plate. You'll fuck up your arms, neck, and chin. Great way to become a casualty.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, buying extra-thick coating moves AR500 steel plates into budget ceramic territory, so just fucking buy ceramics.
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