Questions About Choosing Plates/Backers-Velocity Systems+General Questions

[Jim D]

I bought an APC with soft armor backers a few years ago but I never got around to buying the plates (training plates sit in it now). Since then Grey Ghost released their Level IV stand alone plates at an awesome price. What's the consensus on pairing stand alones with soft armor, just because I already have it? I know the soft armor would provide a little more padding and worst case I can just take that out, but just curious.

It's just going to conform to your body more than the hard plate would and inhibit air flow. I wouldn't wear a backer underneath a SA plate unless the plate was digging into me and the carrier wasn't padding the edges of the plate well enough. On a triple curve plate I think it's a poor idea.

[Wake27]

And trile curves are supposed to be much more comfortable than a single curve gamma cut, correct?