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SEE WHO PRODUCES VESTS FOR THE MILITARY AND HOW THEY ARE TESTED

The demand for buying bulletproof vests in Ukraine has increased several times since the Russian offensive began. Volunteers who’ve been helping the front since 2014 say the nightmare has happened again. We found out where bulletproof vests are made in Ukraine, what are their types and prices, and whether it is cheaper to buy abroad.To get more news about bulletproof zone review, you can visit bulletproofboxs.com official website.

When the full-scale war broke out in February, there were almost no military vests in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense, as the largest customer, actually stopped purchasing this type of equipment in 2019. Probably, this happened after opening a criminal case for the acquisition of a large batch of low-quality bulletproof vests. The chairman of the board of the Lviv Defense Cluster [hereinafter LOK – Ed.], Maksym Plekhov, says that the shelf life of bulletproof vests is about five years, so the state had only their remnants, which were already unusable.

Previously, the mass production of the means of protection for the Ukrainian army was mainly executed by LLC ?Temp 3000? (it was called a monopolist), LLC ?Scientific and Production Enterprise ?Materials Science? and the Kharkiv Plant of Personal Protective Equipment. After February 24, the latter partially relocated to Lviv, where together with almost 10 companies created the Lviv Defense Cluster and became one of the main manufacturers of bulletproof vests for the Ministry of Defense. More than one and a half thousand bulletproof vests for the Ukrainian military are made here every day – about 10% of the total volume provided by the state.

?When we started LOK’s activities, we pondered which bulletproof vests to make. There was virtually no access to ballistic materials, because few companies in the world manufacture them, and you need to make an order in advance. To make it fast and in large quantities, we managed to start the production of standard body armour of the 4th protection class, given that some of the usual materials for work were no longer available. As a basis, we took the model developed for the Special Operations Forces of Bulgaria and somewhat simplified it. Among ourselves, we call our armour ?victory vests?, – says Maksym Plekhov.
There are two types of body armour: general military vests, consisting of a significant amount of debris-protection fabric and armour plates, and a plate carrier – more convenient and lighter, but not protective against small debris.

As the chairman of the Lviv Defense Cluster (LOK) board stated, according to Ukrainian standards, bulletproof vests are divided into six classes of protection, and for the current war, the 4th class, i.e. the standard general military, is quite suitable. In general, the 1st and 2nd classes protect against pistol bullets, the 3rd – against hunting ammunition, the 5th and 6th are specialized classes of protection against armour-piercing and incendiary cartridges.In addition, each country has its own standards of production, but if it transfers bulletproof vests abroad, it must adhere to the generally accepted international classification NIJ. By the way, it has four classes and several subclasses. Here, NIJ-3 and NIJ-4 bulletproof vests protect against long-range weapons.