How Tough Was Dragon Skin Armor ???

What's up everybody my name is scott and you're watching kentucky ballistics and today we have some legendary body armor this is dragon skin body armor so in the mid 2000s dragon skin body armor is all i heard about everyone talked about how tough it was how it could stop basically any bullet out there it could take multiple hits it can even stop 50 bmg dragon skin armor was made by pinnacle armor and as you can see right here on the bottom we have a little tag that says dragon skin it works by having lots of tiny ceramic plates that overlap each other like dragon skin this was tested by the military but was never adopted and there's lots of theories to why that happened but we're not going to talk about that today today i just want to find out is this armor as tough as legend says but before we shoot it i say we take a panel out so we can get a good look at what we're working with today okay so we can get a good look there that is pretty cool looking you can see all those ceramic plates overlapping and it does indeed look like dragon skin and i will say that looks pretty darn tough but today we're going to find out just how tough it really is so today we are going to attach this dragon skin body armor to a mannequin we're going to start out with a small caliber and then work our way up to the big stuff and i am going to use some rifle rounds today that this armor may have encountered in the mid 2000s but the first round we're going to start out with is 22 long rifle and i will be using a smith and wesson victory this isn't gonna do much okay so we had a good hit right here i highly doubt we made it through if we did oh okay well um that's the end of today's video i'm just kidding it ate that no problem there's not a bulge or anything let's move on to our caliber up next is going to be nine millimeter this is a glock 19 coa and i'm loaded up with one round 115 grain nine mil full metal jacket there we go so we hit right here had a good hit we have no bulge nothing that's not cracked i think we're going to have a tough time today with this dragon skin up next we're going to hit the dragon skin with 45 acp but not just one round we're going to hit it with two rounds this is my apf dueler double barrel 1911 and i'll be loaded up with two rounds of 45 acp all right here we go oh so we have two hits right here side by side and again absolutely nothing super weird i figure the old 45 acp would have blown right through it folded you up like a lawn chair continuing to step it up we have 10 millimeter next this is a beautiful knight hawk custom 10 millimeter and we're loaded up with one round of underwood ammo 180 grain 10 mil full metal jacket all right here we go so we got our hit right here and again looks like we stopped it but i do feel some crunchies in there up next is going to be 357 magnum and i've got a 1911 chambered in 357 magnum and i'm loaded up with one round 125 grain 357 mag okay here we go 357 magnum coming at you sure there's a little light so we had a good hit with the 357 magnum and we got nothing everything's looking great actually let's just open this a little bit take a little peek oh yeah still looks brand new all right up next we're gonna step it up to some big boys this is a 44 magnum this is a torus raging hunter with a custom camo paint job and i have some underwood ammo 245 grain 44 mag full metal jackets 44 mag here we go right down the center all right got hit right here dead center and again nothing no no bulges this thing is taking a beating right now from pistols i mean we've hit it one two three four five six seven that's not a hit it six or seven times six or seven top six sev six seven six seven six seven sorry about that anyways up next is gonna be the mac daddy of handguns the largest production handgun in the world 500 smith and wesson magnum this one has an eight and three-eighths inch barrel and i'll be using some underwood ammo 420 grain extreme penetrators this will be a real test for the dragon skin armor that hit pretty darn hard he definitely felt that one and so did i okay well that was our final pistol i'm gonna go ahead and mark it bet you didn't know i've been drawing this whole time as you can see here we have a smiley face now connect those dots see here we get our nose and then here are the eyes give him some eyebrows channeling my inner bob ross today these are happy shots now let's inspect oh yeah okay that 500 magnum really hit the same hard oh look at that got some got some powder oh got some powder coming out of there definitely don't want to breathe that in oh darn did that make it through no no i don't think it made it through so i believe this is just from the pressure of that round hitting him the energy transfer going through that vest and hitting him in the pack so there's no exit hole this is just rips and tears from where i hit because i kind of hit right on the edge and i just think that those seams kind of burst let's keep going so before we step it up to rifles we're going to use a shotgun this is a 12 gauge shotgun a tavar ts12 and i have three rounds for 12 gauge we have some number eight bird shot we have double lot buck and i have a one ounce slug this thing has three tubes that rotate it's actually pretty cool we're gonna do bird shot first then buck shot and then the slug okay bird shots first you just got jammed oh look at that jam right there that is a mess looks like we ripped the base off of the bird shot the shell stayed in there and then we've got the buck shot jammed up in there i'd say that's the best jam we've had in a few years double hot buck and now the slug let's go check it out i highly doubt any of those made it through that vest and they did not but this is really starting to feel crunchy and there's a lot going on in there so we're going to step it up to rifles next we're going to keep using this front panel i'm pretty sure i just i'm pretty sure i got a little bit of that vest powder in my throat that that does not feel good anyways i'm going to continue to use this front portion of the vest moving on to rifles now if this does finally fail and we make it through this panel we will swap to the fresh side on the back so far i have been pretty impressed with this dragon skin body armor but now we're really going to be putting it to the test with some high velocity projectiles aka rifles first up is going to be an ar-15 this is a q sugar weasel and i'm loaded up with a 20 round mag with one round of full metal jacket and i'm topped off with a suppressor so that means i don't have to wear ear protection which i absolutely love and i also love silencer shop because they know everything when it comes to suppressors and they keep everything easy peasy lemon squeezy a big thank you to them for always keeping us quiet on set all right here we go i don't know about that okay well let's have a look there is our new hit that tiny little hole and we have a hole out the back then we have a hole in him did we go through the other side oh pretty bad let's get this off of him okay so we did make it through the vest went through this side went through him and then hit the other side and we kind of damaged these plates but not really they're still pretty good so moving forward before i flip this i do want to see what happens if i hit these panels right here because i want to preserve as much as i can on the other side for the really big stuff and test out those legendary myths of this thing stopping things as big as 50 cal so let's take another shot with the 556 at one of these panels because they are still pretty intact but uh for the record i don't think he would have survived that but if you've been hit this many times already i mean find some cover get the cover private don't worry i'll just respawn round two with five five six here we go let's have a look so we should have hit fresh dragon scales let's see if we made it through that time our hit is right there it stopped it okay so the only reason we made it through right here is because this was damaged to a point that i guess it was not rated for rifle rounds anymore but when we hit fresh scales we stopped the round so we stopped the five five six but now we're going to step it up to an ak-47 i have a 20 round mag loaded up with one round of 7.62 by 39 full metal jacket so i was aiming for the bottom of the vest because again i'm trying to preserve as much as we can and let's see i don't know about that i think we may have made it through if we did it wasn't much because you can see right here there's a lot of powder right here let's see if it went through the other side if it went through the other side we definitely made it through no so he does not have a hole on the other side and there's nothing on the vest so we did make it through the vest but it seems like it was just shrapnel we did not have a whole bullet make it through the vest this thing is hanging on for dear life but i'm still gonna hit it with at least one more rifle before we flip to the fresh side so up next we have another ak variant this is an ak-74 and this is chambered in 5.45 by 39 it's basically the 5.56 of russia this is a 60 grain bullet and it's going to be moving a lot faster than the 7.62 by 39 i hope i hit fresh plates all right so here is our new hole and yikes okay we went through it for sure we got hit right here and looks like we hit our little flap back here and there's some jacket and whatnot so honestly the way that looks i don't know if we had a whole round make it through that really well if you look right here you can tell this is just a lot of shrapnel that hit there's a lot of dust your shirts chewed up and nothing really hit this solid so even though this is damaged it still stopped that round mostly it did go through the vest but it doesn't look like that would be very lethal it was just lots of little pieces i was really wanting to wait and have a completely fresh side for the 50 bmg but i don't think i have a choice anymore i think that side is officially done so we're flipping to the rear panel now i have three more rifles to use so we're going to take one shot here one shot here and then we will end with the 50 bmg dead center so our next rifle is one of my personal favorites this is an ohio ordinance works h car chambered in 30-06 and this thing has a 20-round mag loaded up with two rounds of 30-06 150 grain full metal jackets all right here we go oh oops yikes too bad they don't make dragon skin underwear let's go ahead and take one more shot sorry about that here we go all right i hit a little low so we hit right here and this was a fresh side but my goodness looks like it made it through this side and he got hit in the side his shirt's all tore up so i was aiming here i hit a little low i didn't really take into consideration my point of aim being closer we hit on the edge but those were still fresh ceramic plates so i say it still should have stopped it now did it stop it mostly yes but it still did make it through the vest i'm starting to be doubtful that this thing is going to stop a 50 bmg that was just a full metal jacket that's not even an ap round or anything like that but we are still going to continue our test i have one more rifle to hit this thing with and then the 50 bmg this next rifle is nothing to shake a stick at this is my shytac m200 intervention chambered in 408 shytac it has my custom camo paint job on it you have just put a thumb in it in the bottom here on the carry handle this thing is absolutely stinking sweet and it is packing a punch it fires this the 408 shytac that is a 419 grain solid copper round and it is screaming i highly doubt that dragon skin is stopping this i know this is a long range rifle and it's meant to be shot prone but today we're going to shoot it and really close oh here we go i shot really low really really low um this is embarrassing let me do that one more time okay i got one more round here we go okay that was a good hit okay so that first hit was very very low we're not even going to count that it definitely went through because there's basically nothing there that was our second shot for the record that is a high powered scope and the lowest setting is seven so when i aim i'm just seeing brown i don't really see anything else and we 100 blew through that vest blew through the mannequin and it looks like we may have went through this other side that's damaged very very very bulged that's a really big bulge okay well seeing that i do not have high hopes for stopping the 50 bmg but we are going to shoot it with a 50 bmg anyways so now we have a serbu bfg 50a with a custom american flag paint job and i'm loaded up with one round of 660 grain 50 bmg full metal jacket ah this final shot is brought to you by sdi if you want to get your start in firearms technology be sure and check them out there's a link in the description down below judging from the grass flying through the air i'm gonna say that it did not stop it so those were fresh dragon scales we blew through the vest judging from this hole we went through the other side and then we hit our berm and grass went everywhere so after that shot i'm gonna say that the legendary dragon skin body armor of ye olde 2000s cannot stop a 50 bmg and it was just an old wives tale i had one more round left so uh couldn't resist oh wait a second i think it stopped it no it didn't so the dragon skin body armor was still pretty impressive but for me it did not live up to the legendary load let me know what you thought about it in the comment section down below and while you're at it be sure and give today's video a like and make sure you hit that subscribe button also be sure to check me out on all other social media platforms links to those can be found in the description down below along with a link to kentuckyballistics.com just in case you want to pick up a shirt and as always my name is scott 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