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Body Armor

Body Armor

Body armor has been around for thousands of years, but when most speak of body armor they are referring to ballistic vests and modern armor designed to deflect or absorb the energy from gunshots and explosions.

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About Body Armor

Body armor is an item of personal armor that helps absorb or dissipate the energy from projectiles and shrapnel from explosions, and is worn on the torso, head and limbs. On the torso, soft vests are made from many layers of woven or laminated fibers and can be capable of protecting the wearer from small-caliber rounds and small fragments from explosives such as hand grenades.

Metal or ceramic plates can also be incorporated into body armor, providing additional protection from rifle rounds. Soft vests are by police forces, private citizens, security guards, and bodyguards, whereas hard vests are mainly worn by soldiers and police SWAT units.

Modern body armor may combine a ballistic vest with other items of protective clothing, such as a combat helmet. Vests intended for police and military use may also include ballistic shoulder and side protection armor components, and bomb disposal officers wear heavy armor and helmets with face visors and spine protection.

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NASIRIYAH, IRAQ - DECEMBER 17: Sets of body armor belonging to members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division rest on the ground as soldiers depart Camp Adder to be part of the last U.S. military convoy to leave the country on December 17, 2011 near Nasiriyah, Iraq. All U.S. troops were scheduled to have departed Iraq by December 31st, 2011. At least 4,485 U.S. military personnel died in service in Iraq. According to the Iraq Body Count, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died from war-related violence.

US Flight Medic sergeant Megan Ford from U.S. Army's Task Force Lift 'Dust Off', Charlie Company 1-171 Aviation regiment puts on her body armor getting ready for a mission to airlift a severely wounded elderly Afghan man who was shot in the face in Helmand province on November 6, 2011. The United Nations says the number of civilians killed in the Afghanistan war in the first half of this year rose 15 percent to 1,462, with insurgents behind 80 percent.

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