two gun charlie
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does anyone here own dragonskin body armour ? it's been on the market a while so I assume the jury will be out on it by now ...
Wasn't it insanely heavy?
looking at those x-rays it's strange they called it dragon skin , because those discs don't overlap in the way that scales are supposed to , it is more in the configuration of chain-mail and there comes the weakness , I think they probably did the original like scales on lizards and then came up against the weight problem so they had to bring down the number of discs and that meant they could not go with the original pattern, well that is what I assume , either way if it was as good as they originally claimed I guess we would all be wearing itI found information on "Dragon Scale", not "Dragon Skin" armor and why the military stopped using it...
http://archive.defense.gov/DODCMSShare/briefingslide/304/070521-D-6570C-001.pdf
(Oops, they do call it dragon skin, sorry!)