There is a huge controversy brewing about Second Chance vests, and the fact that the bulletproof material they're using (Zylon- NOT Kevlar) is supposed to degrade significantly over a brief period of time (measured in months!).

The protection offered by such vests is reported to be drastically less then when new.

Anybody know anything about this?

Scary!

Links:

First, read this:

[url]http://64.177.53.248/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001190.html[/url]

Then, this:

[url]http://64.177.53.248/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001193.html[/url]

Then, this one:

[url]http://64.177.53.248/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000309.html[/url]


Is Kevin McClung just crazy, or is there a REAL problem here for the users of these vests?

All you wanted to know about ballistc armor, but was to boring to read:
[url]http://www.nlectc.org/txtfiles/BodyArmorStd/NIJSTD010103.html[/url]

Edited to add:

FOUND IT! scroll down to the part about initial indications of a possible problem.

[url]http://www.aasias.com/PDFA/Zylon_DSM.pdf[/url]

There is no such thing as a bullet-proof vest.

It's funny, every time I think about getting the Ultima Vest, something like this pops up and I thank goodness I still have my Monarch vest.  This time I actually got to try on an Ultima vest.  It is soooo much lighter than the Monarch, and was only 900+ bucks.  Guess I'll just stick it out with my issued Monarch.

This is not amusing. I have a Second Chance Ultima vest that I wear daily at work.

Mike

Great.....Just completed a big ol, oh shit email to the dept bosses.

hmmm

OK, "bullet-resistant" then...