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Posted: 12/10/2011 6:37:09 PM EDT
Don't know squat about body armor. Tell me about these plates please. What caliber they will withstand, weight, approximate value and age, military issue? Thanks.
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Don't know squat about body armor. Tell me about these plates please. What caliber they will withstand, weight, approximate value and age, military issue? Thanks. They are military issue, rated for three strikes of .30-06 M2 black-tip AP ammo. Age is on the sticker in your pic, weight varies by size but should be between 6 and 8 pounds per plate. They cost the gov't about $1000 for a pair last I checked, plates that "fell off the back of a truck" go for about half that. |
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Don't know squat about body armor. Tell me about these plates please. What caliber they will withstand, weight, approximate value and age, military issue? Thanks. They are military issue, rated for three strikes of .30-06 M2 black-tip AP ammo. Age is on the sticker in your pic, weight varies by size but should be between 6 and 8 pounds per plate. They cost the gov't about $1000 for a pair last I checked, plates that "fell off the back of a truck" go for about half that. "fell off the back of a truck" meaning damaged or stolen? For sure don't want any part of stolen. |
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Don't know squat about body armor. Tell me about these plates please. What caliber they will withstand, weight, approximate value and age, military issue? Thanks. They are military issue, rated for three strikes of .30-06 M2 black-tip AP ammo. Age is on the sticker in your pic, weight varies by size but should be between 6 and 8 pounds per plate. They cost the gov't about $1000 for a pair last I checked, plates that "fell off the back of a truck" go for about half that. "fell off the back of a truck" meaning damaged or stolen? For sure don't want any part of stolen. Stolen mostly. |
| Yeah, stolen. To the best of my knowledge, ESAPI don't make it out through DRMO programs, so when you see them on the civilian market they're pretty much guaranteed to be "hot merchandise". You might be able to find some that were part of a LEO purchase order and then individual officers purchased their plates and later sold them, but even that may be a stretch. |
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Are they the best plates out there? Any civie plates you would take over these? http://www.skdtac.com/Velocity-Systems-Plate-LEVEL-III-IV-ICW-p/amr.108.htm With the Velocity Systems backers. |
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Are they the best plates out there? Any civvie plates you would take over these? Honestly? Yes they are, and no there are not. Commercial plates come in level III (6 round of .308 M80 ball) or level IV (1 round of .30-06 APM2), while these are 3 rounds of APM2. I wouldn't expect to hold still long enough for more than 3 hits, so ESAPI is the tops in my book. |
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Are they the best plates out there? Any civie plates you would take over these? http://www.skdtac.com/Velocity-Systems-Plate-LEVEL-III-IV-ICW-p/amr.108.htm With the Velocity Systems backers. I have these, very nice plates. 
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