Lightweight soft body-armor product

A ballistic panel for being incorporated into a lightweight soft body-armor product adapted for covering an area of the body, said ballistic panel comprising an assembly of between 20 and 30 overlapping plain-weave fabric plies with warp and fill yarns formed of bundled aramid fibers, said warp and fill yarns each weighing between 600 and 850 denier, and said plies having a collective areal density of no greater than 1.25 pounds per square foot, and a V50 ballistic limit of no less than 1925 feet per second using a .22 caliber, 17 grain FSP at 0 degrees obliquity.

A lightweight soft body-armor product adapted for covering an area of the body, said body-armor product comprising at least one ballistic panel including of an assembly of woven fabric plies with warp and fill yarns formed of bundled aramid fibers, said plies having a collective areal density of no greater than 1.30 pounds per square foot, and a V50 ballistic limit of no less than 1925 feet per second using a .22 caliber, 17 grain FSP at 0 degrees obliquity.

A method of forming a lightweight soft body-armor product adapted for covering an area of the body, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) forming a panel of overlapping woven fabric plies with warp and fill yarns formed of bundled aramid fiber, the overlapping plies having a collective areal density of no greater than 1.30 pounds per square foot, and a V50 ballistic limit of no less than 1925 feet per second using a .22 caliber, 17 grain FSP at 0 degrees obliquity;
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• (b) incorporating the panel into an outer shell material of the body-armor product.