Unique Development of Top Quality Bulletproof Vests

Red Eagle is a new player in the tactical business with their main focus on professional high end tactical textile products. The founders of Red Eagle come with the right background from the Israeli Defense Forces – years of hands on experience, sweat and blood. Red Eagle offers tailor-made solutions for varying threat levels whilst maintaining the highest manufacturing standards in strict adherence to ISO 9001 international standards.

Their goal is to harness the cutting edge of technology to create quality ergonomic products, products that can save lives, and bring them to the market at the right price. Red Eagle is active globally, and their products are sold in the defense/LE markets and as of now they are starting to go more and more actively into the civilian market by collaborating with dealers and a brand new web-shop.

Red Eagle offers a line of protective vests, the result of a long and expensive development process in collaboration with another Israeli company that managed to develop unique armored plates made of Aramid fibres and Polyethylene.

Up until now and in relation to the U.S. standard of the Ministry of Justice (NIJ Standard – 0101.06) protection shields have been divided into two main groups; one group falls under the category of ‘Soft Armor’ while the other falls under the category of ‘Hard Armor’ whilst each category has several sub categories; levels of protection, in relation to various weapons.

For example, in the ‘Soft Armor’ category you will find protection levels II- IIIA which represents protection against bullets projected from firearms like the .375” Magnum, 9mm and .44” Magnum with muzzle velocity of 352 m/s to 448 m/s; the top of this category will protect against most pistols and SMG’s.

In the ‘Hard Armor’ category you will find protection levels III- IV which represents protection against bullets projected from 7.62mm and 5.56mm calibre firearms with muzzle velocity of 710m/s to 955m/s; this kind of fire will come from an assault rifle or a light machine gun.

Now, to stop 7.62mm assault rifle projectiles, defence forces use ceramic plates which have the down-side of them being considerably heavy which leads to a lack of flexibility. This in turn makes it more difficult to move in the field and sometimes negates the purpose of the user being more protected.

To stop handgun bullets Red Eagle use protective plates and elastic components made of special fabrics, such as high density Polyethylene and Aramid fibre which are fairly light and flexible components allowing more comfort and maneuverability for the wearer.

In light of the ever increasing demand of numerous defence and police forces around the world for lightweight and flexible (non-ceramic) Bullet Proof Vests offering intermediate levels of protection that can stop a 7.62x25mm Tokarev round with a muzzle velocity of up to 520m/s (that’s very common in eastern-block pistols and SMG’s) Red Eagle brought their expertise and abilities to bear on the problem and succeeded after a long development process to meet these and additional requirements thus defining a new level of protection which is higher than IIIA, which is the highest of the soft armor levels but still lower than III .

The ability to offer such protection in a flexible lightweight vest is a huge achievement by Red Eagle.

According to test results presented by Red Eagle, this special and lightweight ballistic panel is able to protect against the following specific threats:

7.62x25mm SC and FMJ at 520 m/s from 5 metres

9x19mm Luger SJ,SC and FMJ at 375 m/s from 5 metres

S1/G blade at 24 Joules (Anti-stab)

SC = Steel Core

FMJ = Full Metal Jacket

SJ = Steel Jacket

Red Eagle offers these lightweight and flexible ballistic panels in several types of tactical and concealable clothing options:

Tactical vest

Windbreaker (sports jacket)

Flight jacket

Low profile concealable vest designed to be worn under the clothing

Tuxedo

All products maintain a very low weight of less than 3kg and come with a 5 year warranty for the ballistic plates. All products are available in any of the soft armor protection levels IIA, II & IIIA with or without the anti-stab add-on panel. The upper tier protection level is currently restricted for the civilian market to be sold by the company exclusively to military and police forces around the world.

Red Eagle products are manufactured and tested in accordance with the quality assurance standards of military specifications around the world, and adhere to the strict ISO9001 standards, giving them global recognition for high quality, product durability and reliability.

To sum things up; though unfortunately the more unique development by Red Eagle is not available for sale to the private sector, (we did understand from the management of the company that perhaps in the near future this restriction will change), there is no doubt that these are high quality products, being lightweight, flexible and comfortable while in motion and at the same time attaining high body-area coverage, which make them suitable for a wide range of uses.

For that Red Eagle gets a big thumbs-up from Practacsys.com

Red Eagle Military-Grade body armor is available here www.redeagle-bodyarmor.com.

Source: http://www.practacsys.com/equipment/meet-maker-red-eagle-protective-vests/