[MR] Zoombang Maximum Coverage Shirt Legal Kidney Protection

[David Ritterskamp]

>From Sir Omarad, SEM:

OK.
I tested the SCA minimum armor standard against the Zoombang Maximum Coverage shirt for Kidney protection.
My real-life testing against shots thrown across my kidneys with various weapons found that the Zoombang shirt was equivalent or superior to the SCA minimum standard.
I asked the engineers at Zoombang to test their material against the exact same stuff I real-life tested.
I shipped my leather/neoprene to them and this is their results.
Now, you have to remember that I sent them a "best case" sca min kidney protection.
The leather was 11/64" or 11oz. thick and the foam was a high quality neoprene closed cell foam that was .100" (40%)thicker than the min allows.
They have also agreedto test the absolute minimum for me by using the min of .250" padding and sending me the results.
Below is the results for the drop tests we preformed on the leather and foam you sent and one of our pads.
The foam was .350" thick and the leather was .170" thick for a total of .520"
Our pad was .250" thick.
The test were preformed on an Instron Dynatup Drop Tower series 9200
The drop weight was 12 lbs and the velocity was 11ft/sec.
The leather/foam bottomed out at a peak load of 4298
The Zoombang pad had a peak load of 3555.
The conclusion that can be drawn from the test is that the Zoombang pad is 50% thinner and absorbs at least 20% more energy.
 
My conclusion:
Zoombang Viscoelastic non Newtonian Fluid "padding" as provided in the Maximum Coverage shirt meets and exceeds the equivalency of SCA required minimum Kidney protection.


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