Originally Posted by
ace4059
Could a stand alone UHMWPE plate backed with lvl IIIA soft armor stop the steel penetrator tip of M855?
I am trying to find some tests or research on a stand alone polyethylene but where someone puts soft armor behind it for M855.
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I could swear I already saw someone do this sort of test on YT, but for the life of me can't remember who it was.
That being said, there is more than enough 'tests' on YT of UHWMPE armor showing that 855 will buzz right through it with reliable ease and little to no frag.
So yeah... it's going to buzz right through that IIIA backer too, regardless of if it's behind a non-855-rated 'plastic' plate.
Just
Get
Plates
Properly
Rated
For
The
Threat
You
Want
To
Stop.
Good grief.
IMHO, the only way soft backers make sense (in the current plate market) is to mitigate BFD on thin plates. That being said, with the addition of the backers, you're still getting real close to thickness of plates that are already meant to stop those rounds with acceptable BFD. It would come down to price; is it worth ditching the current plates and buying new ones that do everything right, or worth it to put up with a stop-gap measure.
Last edited by Jellybean; 10-29-20 at 14:57.
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