20 years ago and 7 years ago I shot
an old Kevlar / aramid "bulletproof vest"
panel with a number of guns, and two of the 9 mm full metal jacket slugs got embedded in the layers, and I did not bother trying to cut them out or remove them at the time.
Now I just did, by cutting the stitching that held the layers together, then peeling back the 16 layers of Kevlar cloth a couple layers at a time. Well, I found that these 9mm rounds fired from a 5" barrel handgun only
--completely penetrated 4 layers,
but
--stretched and did damage to 3 more layers after that.
And the last 9 layers were undamaged.
Pretty good for Kevlar made in the 1980s based on early 1970s technology.
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an old Kevlar / aramid "bulletproof vest"
panel with a number of guns, and two of the 9 mm full metal jacket slugs got embedded in the layers, and I did not bother trying to cut them out or remove them at the time.
Now I just did, by cutting the stitching that held the layers together, then peeling back the 16 layers of Kevlar cloth a couple layers at a time. Well, I found that these 9mm rounds fired from a 5" barrel handgun only
--completely penetrated 4 layers,
but
--stretched and did damage to 3 more layers after that.
And the last 9 layers were undamaged.
Pretty good for Kevlar made in the 1980s based on early 1970s technology.
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