{"id":20708,"date":"2016-01-04T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/sw-ballistic-nylon-body-armor-and-grenades\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T07:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T13:00:02","slug":"sw-ballistic-nylon-body-armor-and-grenades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/sw-ballistic-nylon-body-armor-and-grenades\/","title":{"rendered":"S&#038;W Ballistic Nylon Body Armor and Grenades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VRsNtRvyyu4?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You have probably heard of &#8220;ballistic&#8221; nylon, but everyone knows that soft armor is made of Kevlar, right? Well, it is today (and other similar fibers). But a few decades back, before Kevlar had been invented, Smith &#038; Wesson was selling soft body armor made using layers of nylon &#8211; &#8220;ballistic&#8221; nylon.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Movie Gun Services, I had a chance to take a look at a vintage set of S&#038;W body armor, complete with steel plates (rated for .38 S&#038;W in the soft panels and .30 Carbine on the plates). For good measure, I also pulled out some revolver-launched tear gas grenades from the same period. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons You have probably heard of &#8220;ballistic&#8221; nylon, but everyone knows that soft armor is made of Kevlar, right? Well, it is today (and other similar fibers). But a few decades back, before Kevlar had been invented, Smith &#038; Wesson was selling soft body armor made using layers of nylon &#8211; &#8220;ballistic&#8221; nylon. Thanks to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/04\/sw-ballistic-nylon-body-armor-and-grenades\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">S&#038;W Ballistic Nylon Body Armor and Grenades<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}