Last night on the Military channel the program “Future Weapons” hosted by that ex-Seal had a segment on the DragonSkin body armor. They shot it full of 5.56 and 7.62 steel-core AP rounds and it stopped them all. Then they threw the shot up vest over a fragmentation grenade. No penetration.
If it works as demonstrated in the show, the stuff is pretty awsome. Perhpas better than what is being used now. But the point of the article is that the stuff we have now works pretty good.
The "expert" they had on worked on the fabric carrier, not the plates. The plates used were not from an approved Govt contractor and the tests did not replicate the Govt tests.
All the NBC story was missing was an exploding pick up truck from the Dateline archives.
The Army put out a rebuttal which included a video. Usually General Officers are restrained, but this guy was laughing at the BS they exposed at NBC.
I believe I've seen the episode you saw a while back. It looks good, but I believe DragonSkin's manufacturer has had other problems other than the Army tests.