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Personal armor is the term used to describe items that are worn or carried to provide an individual with protection from energy. In the military and law-enforcement environment, this energy is principally in the form of impact by non-penetrating projectiles or blows, blast waves from explosions, and penetrating missiles.

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Graham Smith and John Croft of the Police Scientific Development Branch, Sandridge, UK provided information on knife armors.

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  1. Biomedical Sciences, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

    Alan Hepper

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  1. Dept. Surgery, Div. Traumatology &, University of Pennsylvania Medical Ctr., Spruce St. 3400, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Adam J. Brooks

  2. , Academic Department of Military Surgery, Frimley Park Foundation Trust, Surrey, GU16 7UJ, United Kingdom

    Jon Clasper

  3. Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Institute of Research & Development, Acad. Dept. of Military Surgery & Trauma, Vincent Drive, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, United Kingdom

    Mark Midwinter

  4. Birmingham Research Park, Acad. Dept. of Military Emergency Med., Vincent Drive, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, United Kingdom

    Timothy J. Hodgetts

  5. Inst. Research & Development, Dept. Military Anaesthesia, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Vincent Drive, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2SQ, United Kingdom

    Peter F. Mahoney

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Hepper, A., Longhurst, D., Cooper, G., Gotts, P. (2011). Ballistic Protection. In: Brooks, A., Clasper, J., Midwinter, M., Hodgetts, T., Mahoney, P. (eds) Ryan's Ballistic Trauma. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-124-8_11

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