Soft body armor

摘要

Soft body armour has a ballistic panel having an interleaved construction of a generally vertically oriented plurality of layers of interleaved sheets of aramid fibre cloth and sheets of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix adjacently interleaved in an interleave ratio of plies of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix to plies of aramid fibre cloth within each layer of the plurality of layers, the plurality of layers forming a non-quilted array between a front face of the ballistic panel and a back face of the ballistic panel, wherein the interleave ratio of plies of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix to plies of aramid fibre cloth within each layer of the plurality of layers is between 1:1 and 4:4, and wherein the total number of the plies of high molecular weight polyethylene filaments in a flexible resin matrix is equal to or greater than the total number of the plies of aramid fibre cloth within the plurality of layers.