Do bulletproof masks actually work? Ballistic test.

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I like to wear these when the flight attendants tell me to put on a mask. I don’t know why everyone starts screaming.

I'm not a doctor yet but i'm a resident and i did some rotation on traumatology Although the mask fails at the job of protecting the face and even in the lower calibers you would be incapacitated It is interesting to note that it does change the type of trauma and it greatly improves your chance of survival and recovery In a penetrative wound such as a gunshot the damage is not dealt to the point of entry it is done all throught the trajectory making a cone shape wound that is far bigger on the exit Because as the bullet looses momentum it transfers more and more energy However using this mask you would get a wound similar to blunt force trauma and the damage in that case would be far more superficial Which means that we could treat you like you had a car accident In the every day hospital it is very rare to treat a gun shot wound, especially on the head or face because usually they arrive dead if they arrive at all But someone who had a car accident is as regular as every friday night so we are more experienced to treat you In the case someone got shot in the middle of the mask with a low caliber I could send them to a cat scan search for internal bleeding and inflamation on the brain I probably would have to send you to get emergency surgery to open the back of your skull to relieve the internal pressure and give room for the brain to expand Then i'll have to realign your lower jaw and after some days get you another surgery to remove the upper jaw to replace it with a titanium bar and some dental prothesis And after several reconstructive efforts and at least 4 months of rehabilitation you would be able to go back to your life with something similar to a nose and slight brain damage Bad news you wont get to be a model but you would live (If you get treatment withing the hour of getting shot) The alternative would be not using the mask and the bullet would go straight to the brain killing you instantly Edit: wow 8 months since this comment, i got a notification and read some insightful replies i will try to answer some of them in a reply of my own. Thanks to everyone who participated in this little debate of ours

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I like how it tends to deflect any face shot directly into the eye socket.

I suggest doing a new one of these where you do the ballistic visors. The clear bulletproof glass that attaches to helmets. Unlike the face masks, they're a distance away from your face. So the real question isn't backface deformation, but instead penetration and shrapnel.

That's the vigil mask

14:45 “You have to understand how dead you are.” -The ATF at anyone shouldering a 15.99999” barrel

To the question, “what is this even used for”? Keep in mind, 2004-2006 in Iraq we didn’t have armored vehicles and were driving about in soft skin Chevy Tahoe’s. Gunners were “porcupineing “ out doors with no glass. The Well gunners and Turret gunners were a little More exposed to IED blasts but we all ate one eventually. One of my well gunners took a small piece of shrapnel right above the eyebrow. Soon, many gunners were buying face armor to protect against IED blasts. I don’t know anyone that was hit while wearing the face armor but it was popular early on. If you are on patrol or clearing buildings the armor wouldn’t work because of vision restriction, but sitting in a back seat waiting to get hit by an IED on Sadoon Street, it was practical.

I can understand the PRINCIPLE they were trying to achieve. “Bulletproof” armor with a contour so that the bullet deflects off the curved surface. It’s similar to an armadillo, which if you’re shooting with a .22 you have to hit it between the bands, because the bullets will (most of the time) ricochet off the armadillo’s shell, and it’s not even made of anything as strong as this mask.

The problem with a bullet proof facemask is that it either has to be heavy duty enough that it won't deform, loose fitting enough that it can deform without injuring you... or both. For most people, most of the time, "not getting hit in the head" is the more practical option. A Kevlar pillowcase over your head could "stop" all kinds of rounds, just not quickly enough.

“No one cared who I was until I put on the mask” Mike “Bane” Jones

"We have a Korth, a $6,000 revolver for no reason..." Most honest review I've seen so far.

Watching that .22 round deflect into the eye socket had me rolling on the floor laughing for minutes. Hahahahahahaha. I’m crying I’m laughing so hard. You just made my year. 😂

It'll save your life more than likely, especially at longer range engagements and not CQC. But it would be great for fragmentations and shrapnel.

The problem with this face mask is that the centre is the same thickness as the rest of the mask and rounds naturally get deflected towards the eyes due to the contours of the mask. I think the manufacturer could learn a lot by studying medieval armour. Medieval breastplates were thicker in the centre and curved so that arrows would be deflected, they also had ridges at the top of the chest which would divert deflected arrows away from the users face. They need to make the face mask thicker in the middle and incorporate ridges to deflect rounds away from the eyeholes.

The funny thing about non-penetrable masks is that one's neck will be broken much faster. It's not only a matter of not allowing bullet to enter the head, but also managing the rest of delivered kinetic energy. It's why, e.g. Russian "Sphere" anti-ballistic helmets look like a lollipop with paratrooper's head inside...

The thing about modern body armour is that none of it really uses the knowledge gained from ancient armour designs. Some do but very, very rarely. Medieval plate armour was designed in a way were the curvature of plates not only made things like swords and arrows deflect off the armour, the curves also made it so there were spots on your body, where there's an empty void between you and your armour. These voids were mainly located on the chest, shoulders and head. This was especially important on helmets that covered your whole head, where the front and top section never actually make contact with your skull. So if you were to take a hit that deformed your face-shield, the gap between your face and the metal makes it less likely for the deformation to reach your bone and shatter your skull. But not all armours in that time were made the same, so this mechanic varied greatly from armour set to armour set. The main point is, you don't really see this method being used in modern body armour. Modern armour is always touching your body, except for helmets. But most helmets these days rarely use face-shields, save for riot helmets and some Russian helmets. And without some gap between your chest and your armour, a vest that can stop a 50-BMG is rather redundant since it won't stop your rib-cage from shattering due to sheer kinetic trauma. Keep in mind I'm not saying a gap between you and your armour would work perfectly all the time. I just think it would be better than having a bullet resistant plate pressed right against your sternum. Or in the case of this video, right against your bloody face, where the deformation of a bullet impact sends your nasal cavity right into your fucking brain. If the mask was attached to a helmet and free floating away from your face, that would rarely happen.

I didn't understand why he was so intent on making the mask look bad. Clearly the analysis was not completely biased. In urban conflicts where revolvers and low caliber pistols are generally used, this mask could really be the difference between life and death. Bearing in mind that in addition to preventing penetration, the force of the blunt impact is obviously reduced due to distribution.