UK Police ‘soft’ body armor is designed to provide protection from sharp-weapons andlow-velocity pistol ammunition; if ‘hard’ armor plates are fitted then high-velocity rifleprotection is provided. Several different levels of protection for both soft and hard armor areavailable and these are tailored to the individual police officers’ role. The level of protectionoffered by these types of armor from fragmentation threats is not known as fragmentation isnot typically considered a threat to UK Police Officers. However, fragmentation fromdevices such as grenades may be a threat to certain specialized units and during terroristincidents. In this work, neither the soft nor hard UK Police body armor (HG2 and RF1respectively) investigated were perforated when challenged by M75 Yugoslavian grenadesat a distance of 1 m from the point of detonation. The effect due to blast was not considered.The work has provided confidence regarding the performance of selected police body armoragainst fragmentation from a selected grenade threat.
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