Will the military ever accept Dragon Skin armor?
A new kind of body armor that can stop repeated 7.62×54R hits with no penetrations. The Army ran a few suspicious tests, overseen by those in charge of Interceptor body army procurement, and claimed it failed. Civilian testers, including the NIJ, (National Institute of Justice), tested it and concluded that it was vastly superior to any other kind of body armor available. Will the military ever accept it?
http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_060420_dragon3,,00.html?ESRC=soldiertech.nl
Philip– If you read thae article you linked carefully, you would see that the person making those comments was the same person in charge of the Interceptor body armor program for the military. He is under a gag order to say anything except the official Army story, and there have been many other tests that say otherwise.
Philip– The NIJ isn’t getting paid either way, and they say it works.
I was in the chute for a personally funded purchase of Dragon Skin body armor before I was told that my SGLI would be forfeit if I wore it. Not wanting to put my life insurance beneficiaries out of $400,000 should I be killed in the line of duty, I wore Interceptor gear instead. Gradually my original vest saw additions to shoulder and deltoid protection that I swear must have doubled both the bulk and the weight.
You’re claiming complete 7.62×54R protection, but what I see on the URL you tossed is testing primarily done on 7.62×39mm and 7,62×51mm NATO. Some of that new ammunition fired out of SVDs nowadays is a different animal.
As for the military accepting it, “The Army Times” was profiling a new contract put out for form-fitting body armor. It’s going to get really, really messy with the Land Warrior and FCS programs both putting design parameters and additional weight on the drawing board. In a decade, we won’t see anything like what’s being worn today. There are a lot of duds in the procurement system, like the Stryker already, so seeing one lemon exit out the door when so many careers ride on it is a remote possibility. We’ll see what happens.
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