High Amounts of non penetrating damage. Bullets VS Plate Carriers

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by weby

Yes, but there are quite likely plausible designs that can stop 5.56 AP(avg pen 35) with less deformation than 7.62 ball(avg pen 24) as the strike energy of the 5.56 is so much smaller.

The thing is, the deformation from 7.62 is about adequate to do 1 point of damage, so 'less deformation' means 'no damage'.