The History of Bulletproof Clothing

Bulletproof clothing is the most interesting thing I have ever seen in my life. There is not really a problem of bulletproof clothing besides it is very expensive to make it. It is very expensive just because of the materials. The materials are spider-silk, vectran and Kevlar. The history of bulletproof has been worn for thousands of years. Even the medieval Europe worn body armor. By the 1500’s, they changed the development of cannons and guns. Bulletproof in the encyclopedia means the protection of bullets, knives and puncture wounds. They have made antiballistic protective clothing. The material of it is single layer or multilayer package. The bulletproof clothing basically looks like a very strong net.

Bulletproof clothing is really made up of seven layers of bullet-resistant webbing. The three types of the layers are the carrier, Kevlar and plastic film. The body armor just looks like a very strong net. Kevlar is strong, but they also make bulletproof with another material is called vectran. Vectran is 5 to 10 times stronger than steel. They have another rapidly emerging fiber its called spider silk. The resulting of spider silk is biosteel. A strand of biosteel can be up to 20 times stronger than a strand of steel. To have a hard body armor, you have to make I out of thick ceramic or metal plates. It’s extremely hard enough for it to deflect bullets or other weapons. When the bullet makes contact with the material of bulletproof. A police officer or military will wear this type of protection when it is a high risk of attack. The swat team would definitely wear this type of protection too. But when they are on an everyday mission they would mainly wear soft body armor. This would give these types of people the faith in them ...

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