Firefight Armor™

Our Firefight Armor™ includes a redundant, composite design for added safety and performance.  Firefight plates include Model 1948, Model 6001, and Model 6001 SRT.

Is it different than other plates?

Firefight Armor™ plates are designed to mitigate ceramic armor vulnerabilities.

Typical ceramic plates become vulnerable after the ceramic is destroyed because the other plate components are not strong enough to resist incoming shots on their own.  In our Firefight Armor™, the Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight-Polyethylene backer is more robust.  It can offer protection independently of the ceramic to certain projectiles, especially when they are disrupted by impacted or compacted ceramic fragments.

This design makes for a lighter, somewhat thicker armor, but results in more performance, dependability and safety against a burst of shots, especially from RF1/RF2 threats.

We will not sell under-built armor plates that fail when shot or even dropped.  We are here to team you up with the highest probability for survival.

Let's look at a couple of scenarios highlighting the Firefight Armor™ design. Keep in mind that these scenarios are for explanation only.  Real events may not have successful outcomes.

Scenario 1: A police officer is wearing a Model 6001SRT, 6001 or 1948 armor plate and is hit with M855 several times.  The shots land within 2" of each other.  Even though the ceramic was damaged in that area, the remaining ceramic and enhanced backer prevented penetration of the armor plate.

In Scenario 1, the use of any "normal" ceramic armor plate without a backer designed to independently defeat 5.56 and .223 projectiles becomes vulnerable as soon as the ceramic strike face is damaged.

Scenario 2: A security officer is wearing a super thin ceramic, special rifle threat plate from another manufacturer.  He is hit with an AR-15 type projectile twice and the second projectile penetrates the armor (after shot one damages the strike face).  The backing plate of the armor plate was not sufficient to resist standalone ballistic threats.

A possible solution in this case would be to select an armor model in our Firefight line of plates.

Firefight Armor™ brings focus on safety and elevates survival probabilities.