RMA Armament 1199 Level IV Body Armor Torture Test!

everyone walking back to the range having done one of these in a while so it's time to torture some body armor today we have RMA armaments model one $1.99 lightweight level 4 plate I apologize in advance about the sound quality in this video all the shooting bench audio is corrupt and no matter how I messed with it and how many times I uploaded it it wouldn't work so I'm doing a voice over this plate weighs a hair just under 5 pounds 10 by 12 inches it was designed for a contractor that specified light weight as a key factor the strike face on this plate is not a true 10 by 12 but more like an 8 by 10 kind of like the swimmers cuts plate there's a foam Ridge around the outside of the plate that you can kind of see here hopefully I can match the audio up as I mentioned it was for a contract bid that they won and they offer the 1 199 plate for general public consumption if the reduced ceramic strike face is not your thing no buy it our test distance today is at 45 feet pro chrono digital with a clay briefcase we use a clay so we get a good representation of back face it's a little on the cold side so it may underrepresented see more based on how light this plate is we're going to shoot some m855a1 some m193 mata 1 mata 1 and 300 Win Mag as well as m2 AP in our 300 Win Mag as a reminder these threats are always outside of the NIJ protocol for level 4 threat specification the NIJ only calls for a plate to stop 1 m2 AP round at 2880 feet per second at 45 feet this is a tile array plate similar to their 1 1 8 9 plate let's get into this test up first is some common maybe not so common m855a1 and some CBC m193 from the 20 inch barrel I also went ahead and performed at NIJ oh six drop tests on this plate this is not an NIJ certified o6 plate but as good testing standard on all level forces that I test in the future they will be dropped tested no velocity was recorded on either shot but generally 3,000 feet per second from this m855a1 and 3200 from this m193 clone [Music] here was our humming 5 581 little close to the edge there here was the m193 me recite my 20 inch in looks like they're using that different ceramic this is the great color ceramic instead of the white stuff that we're normally used to seeing a little bit of back face right there maybe maybe if you're lucky 10 millimeters off the a1 there nothing I mean the plate dimple there but nothing in the clay yeah see how ma t hey one does against this next up is some legit Mata one that I got from Huey on FAL files from a 22 inch m1 a Pew velocity was 29 82 feet per second here's our shot from the mata one you can see these tiles are starting to come out of there this is definitely the different type of ceramic it even smells different when when you shoot it in you come up and smell it it's kind of hard to explain but it doesn't smell like normal ceramic does when you shoot it what do you guys think oh no pass through here's our dimple good dimple there clay back base about 26 millimeters again my clay is kind of like the NIJ clay but I can't keep it at 98 degrees at all times so when it gets colder it gets firmer so this just kind of gives you a good representation of what you might expect and I use it there as a compressible media and something to easily hold the body armor when I shoot it let's see how this plate handles m80 with a one at a faster velocity okay getting up to some big boys here's Mata one in 300 Winchester Magnum this should be over thirty four hundred feet per second some of the other level fours that I've tested in the past have stopped this this is definitely way outside of the NIJ test protocols [Music] [Music] boom velocity was 34 18 feet per second [Music] here's our shot right here guys what do you think I'll show you oh oh that's a pass through there's a hole there and tried to stop it oh yeah a good sized bump there he's trying to slow down apparently that's too much for this plate again this is a lightweight plate designed to be mobile it wasn't designed to be the strongest in the world so it doesn't surprise me too much that we penetrated with this again outside of the spec let's try some m2 AP at just a little over the NIJ rating alright finally our 300 Winchester Magnum with m2 AP poll bullets 71 grains of IMR are 43 50 so it should be right around 3,000 feet per second which is above the NIJ spec two good spots left on the bottom of the plate and then we'll check out the results [Music] [Music] 29:56 ft/s go let me go reset the plate [Music] plate has been reset boom velocity was twenty nine eighty two feet per second you were shot number one shot number two you can tell there's a decent amount of energy behind each from Lois when I knock this 40-pound thing and clay over what do you guys think oh yeah - penetrations there looks like 2,900 feet per second - almost 3,000 down to a pea just a little too much for this plate again this is - meant to be an ultra lightweight plate not meant for maximum protection that's what their 1:1 each nine plate is for let me cut the cover off and see if there's any more spots that we can do another test on I cut the cover off that's nice rubber coating does I think the ball protectant or part of the assembly process you can see the different shots here that one was a little close these ones though work well far away from it and I did have a four spot on the strike face when I shot it pretty much most of the tile array in here is now gone up our spot here where I didn't shoot is still there I'm not even gonna attempt to take a second shot on this needless to say we're testing is done today I decided to finish this review back up at home so I kind of lay everything out so you guys could take a look at how this plate was constructed here are the remaining tiles that I didn't destroy similar to their one one eight nine plate this one uses it obviously a different ceramic this is a silicon carbide or si si ceramic these tiles are only about three hundred and seven thousand thick compared to say the on guard one that we tested against that 300 Win Mag at 3,200 feet per second these are 400 and like 17,000 thick as I mentioned in the meaning of the review this plate was designed to meet a government contract that required a plate to be as light as possible and yet still provide level four protection by NIJ standards which is to stop 1mq armor piercing around the NIJ lab tests that they have certainly proved that they've also tested em 995 AP which is the 52 green tungsten core five by six round at 800 meter equivalent velocity that this plate will stop as well I think I was a little overzealous with the round order that I picked the testes in these other previous rounds that we shot this plate probably compromised to the point to where I'm not even sure if there was a nice ranek left down here when I shot it you can see maybe this one was on the edge of one of the tiles and so is this one that's really hard to say like I said I always go above and beyond on my tests especially when it comes to armor because the NIJ shows you at a minimum what it can do and I always try to see what it can take stop m855a1 and so that's good as always I'd like to thank our main defense from providing us with body armor to torture for you guys of you few all for watching until next time catch you at the range

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Length: 12min 14sec (734 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 15 2017