Re: [Pyramid] Cutting-Edge Armor Design: Trauma Plates
A trauma plate(or a standalone ballistic plate) covers normally less than a square foot/side.
As example my SAPI style class IV plate is about 25cm by 30cm size, with missing corners for even less area.
But the pyramid design rules give a 5.25 square feet for chest location, but the actual plate is about 1.5-1.6 square feet total for a set of front+back plates.
So as DanHoward says, the actual covered area by such is much smaller than indicated in High Tech.
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