School Me On Plates
Originally Posted by
1168
Side note: I saw a post about a steel plate with “swimmers’ cut”. My blood pressure goes up 10mm/Hg everytime I see that phrase. I used to work somewhere that swimming was an expectation, and have swam in a variety of load configurations, with kit and weapon with boots and BDU’s as well as with fins. Ceramic plates are no huge problem. They lighten up when you hit the water. Not quite neutrally buoyant, but close. The soft armor underneath is also no problem. Ammo is much heavier. Reflectix (shiny bubble wrap) as an armor backer/signal device helps. Steel? Swimmers cut, my $&@. You better have a attentive lifeguard when you test it....
Well granted I called the swimmers cut plate lvl 4 and forgot to call it ceramic lvl 4 for using it as a comparison with the AR500 lvl 3+ alsc.
But if I had to swim with a plate I would definitely take a swimmers cut ceramic plate over one without.
Especially knowing that the terms shooters cut and swimmers cut refer more towards mobility and weapon shouldering.
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Last edited by zombiescometh; 02-10-19 at 09:46.
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