Ballistic Protection standards reference

[CDAT]

Originally Posted by The Dark

There are some level 3s that the manufacturers state won't reliably stop the black tip. I think that, for gaming purposes, having the green tip be Dam 3 Pen 2-Nil and the black tip be Dam 3-3 Pen 1-Nil is a workable compromise. There are so many variations on 3 and 3+ that cover very specific rounds that a body armor system could easily become unplayably complex.

However you want to do it, just giving info from my experiences. And you get what you paid for it regardless of how/if you use it. Sometimes it is so easy to get bogged down with the details to miss out on the fun.

Originally Posted by The Dark

That's a novel use for perps.

I do appreciate the anecdotes, though. For someone like me who rarely even sees armor outside of a museum, it's useful to get information from someone who's not trying to sell the armor.

Going to the body armor shoot was a lot of fun, they let us shoot it with just about anything we wanted, they were even going to let us use the .30-06 on the level 3, until we broke out our ammo, one look at it and they would not let us use it on the level 3 plates, ball they were fine with, but did let us know that it was not rated for that round and may or many not stop it. We did not get to find out as we did not have any ball .30-06 with us.