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Interceptor is a good of physical structure protective covering fielded by the U.S. defence force that is more than impelling than usual ironclad vests.

The fighter physical structure armour net consists of an Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) and two Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI). The OTV is lined next to sparingly basket weave Kevlar KM2 aramid. The vest proven to lessen 9mm 124 GR FMJ at 1,400 fps (426 mps) next to stripped-down wager on external body part damage and has a V-50 of 1525 fps. (Technically can't be named a Level III-A vest as the mil-spec does not phone for conducting tests beside .44 Magnums, but the 9mm mental measurement is exchangeable to NIJ Level III-A certified vest). The garment will too finish other slower heartbreaking fragments, and is too prepared near removable neck, throat, and shoulder and area protection.

Two Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI) may too be side to the front and spinal column of the vest, beside respectively serving dish designed to hinder up to three 7.62x51mm NATO rounds (also well-known as USA M80 .308 cal) next to a muzzle speed of 2,750 feet per ordinal (838 m/s). The plates are the supreme technically advanced body armour fielded by the U.S. military, and are constructed of atomic number 5 inorganic compound artistic production with a Spectra-Dyneema protection finance that breaks down projectiles and halts their thrust in the past move the user.

The Interceptor armor besides has commitment loops on the frontmost of the waistcoat which suit the very hue of pockets previously owned in the Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment MOLLE haversack/carry garment complex. This allows a fighter to tailor-fit his MOLLE and thing armour convention to get together pursuit necessarily. While not particularly planned for it, the loops can also efficiently fix All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment ALICE-based equipment, MOLLE's predecessor, as powerfully as many a pieces of civilian-made plan of action cogwheel.

The Interceptor Body Armor group weighs a absolute of 16.4 pounds (7.4 kg), next to the vest weighing 8.4 pounds (3.8 kg), and two plates inserted weighing cardinal pounds (1.8 kg) all. This is substantially ignitor than the prior unit armor fielded in Somalia advisement 25.1 pounds (11.4 kg) that supreme personnel complained was too beefy and cumbrous for combat operations.

Side-SAPIs (SAPI is thick for Small Arms Protection Insert) are also available, along beside the newer journal of the vital plate, the E-SAPI (Enhanced SAPI). These two systems are comely stock for anterior deployed soldiery in OEF and OIF III. The E-SAPI plates are thicker and heavier than the typical SAPIs, but they set aside hyperbolic cushion from M-80 AP munition. The Side-SAPIs make a fuss of the lateral of the trunk under the arm. With the Interceptor physical structure armor, E-SAPI plates, S-SAPI plates, and near the neck, craw and area protectors installed the protective cover is immensely heavier than 16.4 pounds. A combat freight of implements of war and initial aid kit are just about universally attached to the webbing on the vest, totting up even more mass.

The protective covering vest of the intermediate US army unit in Iraq weighs complete 35 pounds, sometimes the garment beside all their gear attached can weigh up of 45 pounds. There is a unending tradeoff, loss of mobility and consolation and more weight to get versus enhanced protection. This is a point of asseveration in the US militarized forces, near every pro mobility, and others nonexistent as such refuge as is applicatory.

The plates travel in cardinal dissimilar sizes and go into the forefront and fund of the garment. The garment also has a quick-release side in which a fast tug would bead the plates off the waistcoat.