The Lightest NIJ III+ /RF2 Armor! Dayton Armor

I dare say that BFD for m80 is unacceptable, even if only aiming for the new rf2 standard of three hits, The product is mostly marketed to police officers, so maybe they assume it will be used ICW, even if they aren't marking it as such. good strike face retention go, on par with high end consumer plates. Im curious what caused the discrepancy in their own lab tests, I'm pretty sure they had m80 at a much lesser bfd. with the adept thunder now on the market, I see little reason to go with a plate like this, which is clearly lacking any margin of safety.
I do find the ballistic gel tests interesting, Im curious if a soft vest would have any bearing on whether an m193 projectile fragments properly.

Id say its pretty disappointing even for "high speed low drag" considering theres plates out there that are basically just as light, cheaper, and just as good, even a pound more of weight would offer so much better protection, i doubt a pound more and .5inch thicker is gunna be the cause of operation failure, an operators worth in training and skill needs way better protection, considering all the equipment left in Afghanistan m855a1 should be considered extreamly possible to face. This plate makes more sense for law enforcment, but Safe Life FRAS is better in both rolls imo

If you can’t stop m855a1 it’s not even worth buying.

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Are those plates recent? They look nothing like mine in terms of the side view. Mine are the rf2 and they are like half the thickness of those plates. What the heck? Mine is all polyethylene, no ceramic.

I’d be interested to see how their ICW plates do. They’re markets for LEO .38” thick and 1.3lbs for a medium sapi.

They seem to be addressing a gap in the market as a lot of LEO is looking for slim daily wear intermediate threat armor.

So much for the NIJ....Kinda lame I can't see what the price is on their website without a login...

I'm ecstatic that you're testing Dayton Armor! Theres hardly any testing vids on them out there... Any chance you'll test their RF3 plates in the future?

You may survive but it’s gonna hurt like a bitch

whats the pricing on these ? The link wants me to sign up to even view their pricing.

Wow. Probably OK for 38 Special and 9mm pistol, but that’s about it for me.

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Long barrel 7N6M might be an unrealistic threat for American civilians, but with Russia using the 23" RPK74, it isn't unrealistic in combat.

Please test an Adept Armor nova steel helmet!

Finally Dayton Armor. I saw one of their plate stopping 50 cal and always wondering how their plates will do against... well... you

Great work, truly enjoyed!

Rough day for the plates.

What a sketchy result for this test.
A plate that weighs 3.6lb and is .82 thick with almost half of that plate being foam?
What is Dayton Armor trying to pull?

That BFD on M80 on COLD clay is unacceptable.

If price for a pair is ~700 bucks, it's a straight ripoff.

The Hesco M210s may weight 1.4lbs more, but they're .21in thinner, and actually stopped the threats more consistently without showing catastrophic delamination or back face deformation.

And they cost the same for pair.

Is a USGI black SAPI is the pipeline?

Hesco 3611C pretty please!

Thanks Deacon!

My buddy just got MIRA level 4 plates ( I didn't know they even made plates). Any thoughts on them? I got Adept based on your review. Happy with them.

I have shot about 15 Dayton plates in my time. When you keep them in the parameters that they are designed to operate they operate great. Some issues I see here are shooting plates with threats it’s clearly not designed to defeat. It’s obviously very difficult and expensive to keep these tests in NIJ specs or DOD specs, but this video is clearly meant to see the limits of a plate and not review what it is marketed to do.

M193 at 3400 FPS? Plate is designed to stop up to 3300fps which is very sufficient for up to 18” ARs.

M855A1? Restricted round in the US and it’s not an A1 plate it’s a SS109/M855 plate.

I have done 2 180gr 308 and 5 M193 5.56 in their Level III ICW with zero penetration and roughly 52mm backface. If you take that many rounds you probably have some holes off the plate too.

How do you think these would do with IIIA backers?

I personally would like to see how well 7n6m would fair against level 3 ballistic steel armour made by a better company like maybe AR500 I also would have liked to know some details on how the 7n6m performed in ballistic gel

So, the L210 is still the better plate.
I'm so thankfull for you. I have seen others test these plates and use nothing but lead core SBRs and praise them....

❤ thanks again.

I don't know why these people keep showing these videos those plates and vest are a deadly ass death trap as you can see their is know one human whereing and testing the damn things why you will be majorly injured the impact from the hit on the vest or plate will drop you ass like a sack of dog shit you are injured! But if you use a peace of plexiglass or metal you won't be injured because the damn round will bounce off with minimal connectic energy look at the wall with the holes in it but with the plexiglass it won't even touch your body and with a peace of metal and you don't want to be in a major fire fight and get with those things won't even be able to move for 3-7 minutes plexiglass is not like that at all all I can say is good luck!

you see how the round pushes into the clay how deep it is that is connected energy smashing right into you chest or rib cage and that shit hurts like hell and destroy bones and beyond! good luck!