Special Features:

Without ceramic body armor insert; with aramid, ballistic cloth insert; open at one end for insertion of ceramic body armor insert; opening with flap secured by hook-pile fastener tape; with nylon webbing cross harness support and quick release buckles; used by aircrew personnel

Properties:

A carrier or pouch like item designed to hold and position body armor insert(s) that protects the chest area from bullets of small caliber firearms such as pistols, carbines, rifles and the like, including armor piercing projectiles. This carrier includes body armor insert(s). For carriers not constructed of ballistic protective material and do not include body armor insert(s), see carrier,non-ballistic protective,armor-carrying. Excludes vest (1),small arms protective body armor.