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In practice, you'd probably wrap the plate in fabric that would tend to catch the fragments, if nothing else because you need a plate carrier.
by fiatmoney 11y ago
In practice, you'd probably wrap the plate in fabric that would tend to catch the fragments, if nothing else because you need a plate carrier.
- jdfellow 11y agoThe effect is called "spalling" and current steel and ceramic armor plates are coated in a layer of rubber material to catch the fragments.