Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Dragon Skin: Support Our Troops

I just received an email from a soldier asking me to ask everyone to contact their congress critters to reverse the ban on Dragon Skin armor.

"its more effective than anything any army in the world now fields. its a hundred times more flexible than the current interceptor body armor and it also covers more of the wearer. the army claims to have done trials with the dragon skin, and also claims it failed the trials, but the trials came months after the ban. isnt that strange? whats wierder is that every other independant study as well as the inventor of the current issue body armor (interceptor body armor or iba) say that the dragon skin is far superior. not stange enough you say, well how about this. the level 5 protection dragon skin was also rejected by the army, but the us government has marked the design as classified. why would they do that if it was so bad? stange. either way. write your congressmen and tell everyone you know to do the same, so maybe we can not only get the ban lifted, but maybe get the stuff issued to the troops."

I'm not so sure that it's strange they would ban it before testing, but after testing is the strange part. The army says it failed the tests. But it sure doesn't look that way: check out this ebay purchase - somebody accidentally got his hands on one of the actual vests tested by the army. And check out this article about current MIT research. Then contact your congress critter.


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