If you re looking for a little bit more serious protection and don t mind the bulk ar500 s level iv ceramic pe armor might be what you re looking for.
How to make ceramic armor plates.
Purchase commercially available body armor if you need protection.
A number of different successful ballistic armor designs have been done with ceramic plates installed.
The ceramic tile was demolished.
For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent.
In this video i show you the complete process i use to make a curved ballistic plate insert that could be used in a plate carrier.
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Shooting the diy plate armor.
Ceramic floor tile pei5 available at lowes or home depot.
Three quarter inch thick ceramic plates over level iiia soft body armor is considered effective for level iii armor against rifles.
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The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate.
Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to destroy it.
Level iv multi hit rifle ceramic body armor plates use a monolithic piece of ceramic that can produce small cracks throughout the body armor plate when hit by an m2ap round.
The disadvantage of ceramic is that it s relatively more expensive compared to steel.
Most ceramic armors are made using silicon carbide alumina titanium diboride and boron carbide.
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No bullets got through the plate.
The materials used were.
Doing so can result in serious injury or death if you were to get shot and the armor fails.
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Ceramic floor tile pei5 available at lowes or home depot.
Compared to ceramic armor steel.
Do not construct armor plates for personal use.
Make sure the floor tile is pei5 rated as that is a hardness rating of the tile and it increases the ability of the armor plate to stop the bullet.
Like the ar500 steel plates you can find their ceramic plates in a variety of cuts and sizes.