Difference between Soft Body Armor and Hard Body Armor

Soft body armor, as the name suggests is a soft, lightweight and flexible armor used by human to protect them against bullets and other projectiles that my hit the body and damage it. There are other kinds of body armors such as bullet, stab and spike proof body armor. the spike and stab body armors belong to the hard body armors. it is strong enough to protect the body from sharp materials.

Depending on the level of protection or type of the body armor, the soft body armor will stop normal hand gun rounds up to .44 Magnum. While the hard body armor offer a much higher level of protection and is normally used by those people in the military and Army in war zones to defeat rifles and strong guns. Since these hard body armors are made up of solid materials such as ceramic and metal, they are also much heavier when compared to soft body armor. But usually, when a soft body armor is made, for the combination of both bullet proof and stab proof, the hard body armor is inserted and placed in front of the soft body armor such that the hard part will absorb the majority of the force and energy of the rounds, more impact is put upon the hard body armor since it is considered the first defense.

The hard body armor is usually made up of ceramic or metallic plates designed to prevent bullet and sharp objects penetration. They act like an iron suite that traps the round to prevent spalling or cracking and flaking of the particles out of the surface. It prevents the breaking of the particles while soft body armor are high performance web of fibers that absorbs the projectile and disperses the energy from the impact over a wide large surface area.