AR500 Armor C3 Level IV 10" x 12" Ceramic Multi-Hit Ballistic Plate

The AR500 Armor C3 Level IV Ceramic Multi-Hit Ballistic Plate is made to handle the warzone. Places where the ability to stop threats like .30 caliber armor-piercing bullets is a must. AR500 tested this plate to stop M2 AP rounds at a velocity of 2,880 ft/s. It succeeds. In fact, whereas such a threat would punch through most plates, and some Level IV ceramic plates would likely collapse after one hit, this plate has been tested to successfully stop as many as three successive M2 AP rounds. Ceramic plates stop rounds in a unique fashion: because of the hardness of ceramic, the energy of incoming bullets breaks the point of impact to absorb the energy more completely. The downside of this method is that the shattering hurts the plate's ability to stop following rounds. As with the C2 Multi-Hit, the C3 shatters in a smaller area, leaving the rest of the plate strong enough to stop more hits. The C3 armor plate is compatible with all standard-size carriers; it is a normal 10&rdqu...