Stab proof vest - GIF

[Altair]

Stab proof vest.




Previously:

1923 bulletproof vest test - photo
Cork life jacket - photo
EksoVest exoskeleton vest - video

[jdurand]

If someone's got a knife, it's easy enough to cut the bits not covered. A hard hit from a bat is STILL going to be noticed.

An old girlfriend was shot in the chest while wearing body armor. It didn't penetrate but did knock her down and she needed treatment. She decided avoiding being shot was the better plan.

[IAMSatisfied]

[jdurand]

Yep, now dial that up to a "real" pistol that an actual bad guy shot at her.

[VinnieL]

About 1978 or 79 when ballistic vests first began to appear, one of the first manufacturers was Second Chance. If you were in law enforcement, if you wrote them a note they would send you a piece of the fabric to test. So I did and got a piece about 5 inches by 7 inches. The guys on the department and I took it out and shot it with a little bit of every pistol caliber we could come up with. (e.g. .44 magnum, .357 magnum .38 special, .32 ACP, .45 ACP, .22 LR etc.)

The only thing that penetrated it was a .22 magnum and it cut through it like hot butter. Soon better fabric than plain kevlar was developed.

I purchased a Point Blank vest. I wore vests of various makes for many years, and the department eventually began replacing them on a regular basis.

[neilbourjaily]

You see stab vests on corrections officers. No matter how many times you toss a cell, some inmates just figure out how to make and hide a shiv.

[IAMSatisfied]

When I was a mid-teen in the early 80s, I talked a friend of mine into helping me test the amount of pain inflicted by a pump pellet rifle. My back was the target @ 100', and I wore a hooded military jacket over my flannel shirt and tee-shirt (I figured that was enough padding to diffuse the impact of the pellet). I positioned a piece of plywood to protect my legs and tucked my arms and hooded head so that only my back was exposed. We started at one pump and planned to progress up to 10. From one pump up to six pumps, each impact felt identical, like someone gently throwing a pebble at my back. Impatient, I told my friend to "Do TEN pumps". His shot hit 1.5" from my spine and I was hopping around like a wounded jackrabbit. I had a 2" welt with a black center, no penetration. This introduced to my young mind the concept of an exponential power curve.

[ibdennyak]

When I was a mid-teen in the early 80s, I talked a friend of mine into helping me test the amount of pain inflicted by a pump pellet rifle. My back was the target @ 100', and I wore a hooded military jacket over my flannel shirt and tee-shirt (I figured that was enough padding to diffuse the impact of the pellet). I positioned a piece of plywood to protect my legs and tucked my arms and hooded head so that only my back was exposed. We started at one pump and planned to progress up to 10. From one pump up to six pumps, each impact felt identical, like someone gently throwing a pebble at my back. Impatient, I told my friend to "Do TEN pumps". His shot hit 1.5" from my spine and I was hopping around like a wounded jackrabbit. I had a 2" welt with a black center, no penetration. This introduced to my young mind the concept of an exponential power curve.

LOL.....reminds me of myself and my friend Ron in my misspent youth. We used a culvert and the target was his back side. After seeing his reaction, I decided to forfeit my chance as target. He never forgot it.

[NeiljohnUK]

If someone's got a knife, it's easy enough to cut the bits not covered.

As UK Police officers, and others, attacked by Jihadis have found to their cost, those that have survived that is. Jihadis that have been trained in 'stan know to shoot through the armpit and stab down into/through the neck, bypassing protective vests. Oh and tanto grind blades will penetrate some vests apparently...

Being an ex-EMT I'm still briefed by security specialists incase I'm called back into service, it's an acknowledged problem.

Ambulance staff in the UK are not allowed to wear stab/ballistic vests on duty unless it's been declared a 'hot zone' and the vest is issued on a senior officers orders, get caught wearing an undercover vest and your fired!

[VinnieL]

While being a cop for 28 years, I went through a lot of crap, but the people who serve in corrections have it far worse as they have to deal with a large quantity of the people I dealt with all concentrated in a captive environment. I really don't know how they do it, but I have the utmost respect for the job that they do daily.