Interceptor is a charitable of thing armor fielded by the U.S. study that is much strong than typical watertight vests.
The fighter unit armor group consists of an Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) and two Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI). The OTV is creased next to sparsely natural fibre Kevlar KM2 aramid. The garment proven to block 9mm 124 GR FMJ at 1,400 fps (426 mps) near nominal backbone facade harm and has a V-50 of 1525 fps. (Technically can't be called a Level III-A vest as the mil-spec does not name for experimentation beside .44 Magnums, but the 9mm check is identical to NIJ Level III-A certified waistcoat). The vest will besides pause some other slower flowing fragments, and is likewise helmeted with removable neck, throat, and body part and area refuge.
Two Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI) may too be added to the advance and hindmost of the vest, with all sheet designed to break up to cardinal 7.62x51mm NATO rounds (also certain as USA M80 .308 cal) beside a muzzle speed of 2,750 feet per ordinal (838 m/s). The plates are the furthermost technically advanced organic structure armor fielded by the U.S. military, and are constructed of boron inorganic compound artistic production with a Spectra-Dyneema shield finance that breaks fluff projectiles and halts their forcefulness earlier move the user.
The Interceptor armor as well has loyalty loops on the advanced of the garment which suit the selfsame hue of pockets used in the Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment MOLLE rucksack/carry vest group. This allows a combatant to tailor-fit his MOLLE and article armour association to fitting foreign mission requests. While not expressly designed for it, the loops can besides glibly join All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment ALICE-based equipment, MOLLE's predecessor, as powerfully as galore pieces of civilian-made tactical gear.
The Interceptor Body Armor regulations weighs a sum of 16.4 pounds (7.4 kg), next to the garment deliberation 8.4 pounds (3.8 kg), and two plates inserted deliberation iv pounds (1.8 kg) all. This is radically igniter than the previous thing protection fielded in Somalia weighing 25.1 pounds (11.4 kg) that most soldiery complained was too immense and bulky for fight operations.
Side-SAPIs (SAPI is short and sweet for Small Arms Protection Insert) are besides available, on next to the newer altered copy of the critical plate, the E-SAPI (Enhanced SAPI). These two systems are decent stock for guardant deployed personnel in OEF and OIF III. The E-SAPI plates are thicker and heavier than the usual SAPIs, but they bestow augmented trust from M-80 AP weaponry. The Side-SAPIs conserve the side of the body lower than the arm. With the Interceptor natural object armor, E-SAPI plates, S-SAPI plates, and with the neck, pharynx and groin protectors installed the protection is vitally heavier than 16.4 pounds. A combat heap of implements of war and front aid kit are just about universally attached to the webbing on the vest, totting up even more large-scale.
The armor garment of the mean US army unit in Iraq weighs over 35 pounds, sometimes the waistcoat next to all their gear attached can measure upwardly of 45 pounds. There is a invariant tradeoff, loss of quality and consolation and more weight to transportation versus enlarged security. This is a tine of averment in the US militarized forces, with many favoring mobility, and others lacking as so much sanctuary as is interoperable.
The plates locomote in five contrastive sizes and go into the frontal and put money on of the garment. The waistcoat besides has a quick-release part in which a rapid tug would globule the plates off the waistcoat.