Developments in body armor over the last thirty years are numerous, but very few actually have revolutionized the industry.Pinnacle Armor presents a revolutionary technology called DRAGON SKIN®, the first practical, FLEXIBLE BODY ARMOR that defeats rifle rounds. Dragon Skin is a type of ballistic vest made by Pinnacle Armor. It is currently produced in Fresno, California. Its characteristic two-inch-wide circular discs overlap like scale armor, creating a flexible vest that allows a good range of motion and can allegedly absorb a high number of hits compared with other military body armor. The discs are composed of silicon carbide ceramic matrices and laminates, much like the larger ceramic plates in other types of bullet resistant vests.
Now you can wear armor that flexes and molds to the contours of your body and allows for greater coverage than a rigid 10" x 12" plate which is the typical coverage offered in current technology.SOV-2000 armor is made of an imbricated overlapping configuration of high tensile ceramic discs encased in an aramid textile cover. Different layout configurations with variations in coverage are available.
Unmatched in its capabilities, the SOV™ flexible body armor system has the following features :
Weighs Less : Pinnacle’s Dragon Skin® technology’s (Flexible Body Armor) vest has the lightest weight for the ballistic and fragmentation protection capabilities provided. No other technology has the protection (coverage and impact capabilities) that the SOV/Dragon Skin® technology provides.
Increased Multiple Repeat Hit Capability : Pinnacle’s SOV/Dragon Skin® technology can sustain greater amounts of impacts than current monolithic ceramic plate technologies affording increased soldier survivability.
Less Trauma : Pinnacle’s SOV/Dragon Skin® technology has demonstrated 45-52% reduction in average back face deformation reduced trauma to the body. This means the wearer can take multiple hits on the vest
and keep fighting effectively. This aspect, by itself, is incredibly important, especially in urban warfare and CQB (Close Quarters Battle) scenarios.
Increased Flexibility and Cooler : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology has flexible mobility. This flexible mobility increases the comfort and mobility of the wearer. The flexible configuration of the discs allows the wearer to move with greater ease decreasing the level of energy required to move.
Increased Durability : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology has substantial durability compared to the monolithic ceramic plate technology.
Edge Hit Cabability : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology has demonstrated reduced edge affected zone increasing effective area of coverage provided by the ceramic discs.
Greater Coverage : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology has offers vastly greater amounts of coverage options. It is the first body armor system that can be tailored to be mission specific up covering the entire torso. This is especially needed in a heavily IED laden battlefield.
Fit Flexibility : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology is tailorable for both male and females to the 97 percentile. It can be used not only in a tactical configuration but also in concealed variants for both genders.
Reduced Ricochet Threat : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology has shown to eliminate ricochets’ from obliquity/angled shots up to 60°. The rigid plates have ricochet shots starting at approximately 35°. This too increases soldier survivability by reducing the probability of one soldier being shot and the projectile ricocheting off him and into the next soldier injuring or fatally wounding him/her.
Increased Projectile Diversity : The SOV/Dragon Skin® technology defeats the compendium of projectile threats faced world-wide as threats to our military, not just regional threats per engagement. Our military is deployed world-wide and so too their armor should be able to defeat all known projectiles within a specific threat category at muzzle, not just a select few.
