Interceptor is a mode of body protective covering fielded by the U.S. subject area that is more than potent than time-honored bulletproof vests.

The fighter body protective covering policy consists of an Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) and two Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI). The OTV is lined next to finely natural fibre Kevlar KM2 aramid. The garment tested to nip in the bud 9mm 124 GR FMJ at 1,400 fps (426 mps) near smallest back frontage deformation and has a V-50 of 1525 fps. (Technically can't be titled a Level III-A waistcoat as the mil-spec does not bid for testing next to .44 Magnums, but the 9mm question paper is equal to NIJ Level III-A certified waistcoat). The vest will besides come to a close other than slower arousing fragments, and is as well armored with dismissible neck, throat, and body part and groin cover.

Two Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI) may too be more to the front part and vertebrae of the vest, beside all salver designed to withdraw up to cardinal 7.62x51mm NATO rounds (also agreed as USA M80 .308 cal) next to a opening velocity of 2,750 feet per ordinal (838 m/s). The plates are the peak technically advanced organic structure armour fielded by the U.S. military, and are constructed of b inorganic compound artistic creation with a Spectra-Dyneema shield support that breaks downfield projectiles and halts their force beforehand motility the user.

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The Interceptor protection also has attachment loops on the advanced of the waistcoat which conform to the said kind of pockets utilised in the Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment MOLLE haversack/carry vest set of contacts. This allows a combatant to tailor-fit his MOLLE and body armor complex to join hunt requests. While not particularly planned for it, the loops can besides effortlessly tie All-purpose Lightweight Individual Carrying Equipment ALICE-based equipment, MOLLE's predecessor, as in good health as many another pieces of civilian-made tactical wheel.

The Interceptor Body Armor rules weighs a entire of 16.4 pounds (7.4 kg), beside the vest advisement 8.4 pounds (3.8 kg), and two plates inserted advisement four pounds (1.8 kg) all. This is significantly igniter than the past organic structure armour fielded in Somalia weighing 25.1 pounds (11.4 kg) that furthermost personnel complained was too dense and bunglesome for fight transaction.

Side-SAPIs (SAPI is shortened for Small Arms Protection Insert) are besides available, on beside the newer altered copy of the essential plate, the E-SAPI (Enhanced SAPI). These two systems are comely rule for transmit deployed force in OEF and OIF III. The E-SAPI plates are thicker and heavier than the native SAPIs, but they propose inflated security from M-80 AP munition. The Side-SAPIs protect the cross of the trunk beneath the arm. With the Interceptor thing armor, E-SAPI plates, S-SAPI plates, and near the neck, craw and area protectors installed the protective covering is essentially heavier than 16.4 pounds. A conflict mass of munition and prototypic aid kit are most universally connected to the webbing on the vest, tally even more mass.

The armor waistcoat of the mean US army unit in Iraq weighs terminated 35 pounds, sometimes the waistcoat beside all their gear wheel attached can weigh upwards of 45 pounds. There is a invariant tradeoff, loss of mobility and assurance and more than weight to conveyance versus magnified trust. This is a prickle of asseveration in the US equipped forces, with any pro mobility, and others wanting as noticeably haven as is pragmatical.

The plates go in v opposite sizes and go into the front part and vertebrae of the vest. The garment too has a quick-release portion in which a sudden tug would dewdrop the plates off the vest.