How Accurate is a Topographical Map?
Resources:
Understanding latitude: https://www.britannica.com/science/la...
Find your latitude and longitude: https://www.latlong.net/
Summary page: https://www.itstactical.com/skillcom/...
Ranger Handbook: https://www.milsci.ucsb.edu/sites/def...
itstactical.com
Quickly & precisely reading a topographical map renders you independent of GPS-based directions. It is a skill every man should learn.
In this video, former SEAL Asa Miller breaks down the details of the topographical map and identifies one particular place where the map has to be aligned with reality and with your compass: true north, grid north, and magnetic north.
Part of a series on land navigation led by Asa. Next time, we'll cover practicalities out on the field.
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Armored Republic: Free Men Stand Ready.
Free Men Prepare and Keep Watch.
Free Men Stand Against Violence.
Free Men Defend the Innocent.
Body armor helps you take courage and use your freedom for good.
Get your own armor today: https://www.ar500armor.com/
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Industry-Shaping Innovation: The A3
By combining a steel strike face with a polyethylene backer, the A3 is made to be tougher than polyethylene, lighter than steel, and stronger than both. It resists mild steel core rounds such as 5.56x45MM, M193 Ball and M855- as well as 7.62x51MM NATO Ball with the ruggedness of steel while being light and naturally frag-resistant with the polyethylene backer.
It is pending NIJ approval for 0101.06 certification (all tests passed).
ar500armor.com/a3
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The Armored Republic is Suing New York
On Sunday, June 5th, 2022, the New York Democrat-led government enacted an unconstitutional law raising the age to buy a rifle to 21 years old and making civilian purchases of certain body armor “illegal”, with minimal exceptions. Thirty days from June 5th, we can no longer legally ship certain body armor products to civilians in the state of New York.
- This tyrannical law signed by the New York governor is an infringement of God-given rights
- We plan to prioritize ALL New York orders to deliver within the July 5thcutoff date
- We are working with our legal counsel to determine what specific products will be subject to this unconstitutional ban
- We are suing the state of New York: RESIST TYRANNY, SUE NY
- For details on our thoughts regarding this ban, view our blog post here: https://www.ar500armor.com/blog/new-york-body-armor-ban/
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The New Armored Republic Body Armor Matrix
Industry jargon can make shopping for body armor a confusing challenge, so we've designed a product identification framework to make your journey easier.
At the Armored Republic, we want you to be able to quickly identify the right armor for your needs. The simpler the process is for you, the quicker we can achieve our mission of equipping free men with the Tools of Liberty to protect their God-given rights.
With that goal in mind, we've simplified our body armor lineup to just four categories organized around the material used for the strike face of each product. We now have 4 unique series of body armor types to choose from:
S series
P series
A series
C series
So, what's the difference between each series?
Read more about our new Armor Matrix here:
https://www.ar500armor.com/knowledge-base/intro-body-armor/body-armor-matrix.html
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The AR500 Armor® Veritas™
Every just cause fights for truth; a just cause opposes the evil that falsehood creates. But this fight calls for protection: Arm yourself with the Veritas carrier, named after the Latin word for truth, designed to be fully customizable and ready for optimization to any situation. Adopt a minimalist setup or build up a complete loadout; this rugged carrier can do it all.
The AR500 Armor® Veritas™ is our modular plate carrier embodiment fueled by years of feedback and evaluation as a body armor manufacturer. Fusing every desirable feature into a finely crafted, cost effective modular system with no compromise. The result astounded even us.
The Veritas™ is one of our signature plate carriers, and with that represents what the AR500 Armor® R&D team, and brand stand for. The Veritas™ by AR500 Armor® is designed to compete, scale, and leave you wanting for nothing.
Build your Veritas™ here:
https://www.ar500armor.com/veritas-carrier-package.html
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Will frag from our steel body armor fly right through your plate carrier?
When you shoot something, there are three things a bullet can do:
1. It can go through the target (think paper, thin metal, or drywall)
2. It can be ‘absorbed’ by the target (soft body armor, larger trees, or similar)
3. It can be deflected or shattered by the target (steel armor plates, concrete, or rocks)
AR500 Armor revolutionized the steel core armor industry by being first to market with our fragmentation and spall mitigation build-up coat. Since then, we’ve continued to master and refine the process...so much so we consider it an art form, utilizing artisan-level craftsmen in its application.
First, we employ a multistep process to clean and prepare the steel armor cores for both our FragLock base coating and FragLock build-up coat application process.
Then, the craftsmen of the Armored Republic use a long-developed process to apply our FragLock coating to just the right thickness...a thickness our testing has shown to be the best balance of elasticity and durability, about 5x the thickness of our base coat.
After curing, the plates then go through a multi-stage quality control process to ensure the coating has been evenly applied and is free from performance and cosmetic imperfections.
Even with all this, we continually test our current and potential formulas to make sure we bring you the very best frag and spall mitigation coating on the market.
And our testing is clear...AR500 Armor’s FragLock Build-Up Coat is the best level of frag containment for the money. But don’t take our word for it. Watch the videos we're posting all month long.
The results speak for themselves.
Check out more info at our Spall & Fragmentation page:
https://bit.ly/3H6ffk5
Wondering what to buy first? Visit our Promotions page.
https://bit.ly/30JDEfx
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Level III Steel Plate with FragLock™ vs. M80 in Slow Motion!
"How does the FragLock™ buildup coat perform against the M80 on level III steel?"
Using 7.62x51 M80 Ball (149 grain) We see what happens when we shoot at our Level III Steel plate with our proprietary FragLock™ coating.
If you’ve ever shot steel targets, you’ve likely seen bullet fragments strike the ground as the projectile shatters on impact. That’s why there’s a minimum safe distance when shooting steel.
When bare steel is shot, frag and spall travel perpendicular to the plate’s surface. Our FragLock™ coating is the solution to that problem.
You can learn more about our FragLock™ coating here:
https://bit.ly/3DLywpL
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Why is some Ceramic armor only single hit rated?
Next in our slow-motion series: Ceramic Armor vs .30-06 M2AP
Ceramics are hard but brittle, which leads to cracks when hit or dropped. Monolithic plates are typically single hit for that reason.
There are pros and cons to every armor option, if you'd like to check out our Ceramic armor then head over to this link:
https://www.ar500armor.com/level4-alsc-body-armor.html
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NEW: Chain & Tag
In 1564, Scottish reformer John Knox wrote, “that subjects not only may but also ought to withstand and resist their princes whensoever they do anything expressly repugnant to God, his law or holy ordinance.” Men accountable to God have an express moral duty to resist anyone who attempts to overstep the bounds of their God-given authority. Our culture ought to reflect that; our pendant reflects it as well.
Inscribed on the pendant is the message “Obey God - Resist Tyranny - Lex Rex.” “Lex Rex”, Latin for “Law is King”, is a book written by Scottish pastor Samuel Rutherford in response to King Charles I attempting to assert his divine right as king to overrule the English parliament. In essence, he argued: The king is not law. The king does not invent law. The law is the ultimate authority, and when a king tries to assert authority beyond that law, he oversteps the bounds God has set for him.
Rutherford noted that because the king is not above the law, the people have the right to resist a king when he acts tyrannically, even to the point of war. It illustrates the principle that those under authority still must always obey God rather than man.
The Armored Republic has long championed the belief that resistance to tyranny is the hallmark of free men, and we included these phrases on the tag to remind us that no corner of the universe is independent of God’s authority and providence. He is the one ultimate sovereign.
Get your very own right here:
https://www.ar500armor.com/accessories-bundle.html
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Does Steel Armor Have a Frag Problem?
If you’ve ever shot steel targets, you’ve likely seen bullet fragments strike the ground as the projectile shatters on impact. That’s why there’s a minimum safe distance when shooting steel. When we introduced our AR500 Armor ballistic plates in 2012, we knew this was something we had to address. Our base coating gave our armor plates a sealed surface to protect it from the elements and provides some frag and spall mitigation.
When bare steel is shot, frag and spall travel perpendicular to the plate’s surface. Our FragLock™ base coat captures some of the perpendicular frag and deflects the remainder away from you.
Today CEO of the Armored Republic David Reece shows us just how effective our FragLock™ coating is at defeating the spall and fragmentation problem.
You can learn more about our FragLock™ coating here:
https://bit.ly/3DLywpL
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Is Frag A Real Danger With Our Steel Armor? M80 vs Level III in Testudo Carrier!
When you shoot something, there are three things a bullet can do:
1. It can go through the target (think paper, thin metal, or drywall)
2. It can be ‘absorbed’ by the target (soft body armor, larger trees, or similar)
3. It can be deflected or shattered by the target (steel armor plates, concrete, or rocks)
AR500 Armor revolutionized the steel core armor industry by being first to market with our fragmentation and spall mitigation build-up coat. Since then, we’ve continued to master and refine the process...so much so we consider it an art form, utilizing artisan-level craftsmen in its application.
First, we employ a multistep process to clean and prepare the steel armor cores for both our FragLock base coating and FragLock build-up coat application process.
Then, the craftsmen of the Armored Republic use a long-developed process to apply our FragLock coating to just the right thickness...a thickness our testing has shown to be the best balance of elasticity and durability, about 5x the thickness of our base coat.
After curing, the plates then go through a multi-stage quality control process to ensure the coating has been evenly applied and is free from performance and cosmetic imperfections.
Even with all this, we continually test our current and potential formulas to make sure we bring you the very best frag and spall mitigation coating on the market.
And our testing is clear...AR500 Armor’s FragLock Build-Up Coat is the best level of frag containment for the money. But don’t take our word for it. Watch the video and hit the link below.
The results speak for themselves.
Check out more information here:
https://www.ar500armor.com/spallandfrag.html
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Does Steel Armor Frag? Level III+ VS M193
When you shoot something, there are three things a bullet can do:
1. It can go through the target (think paper, thin metal, or drywall)
2. It can be ‘absorbed’ by the target (soft body armor, larger trees, or similar)
3. It can be deflected or shattered by the target (steel armor plates, concrete, or rocks)
AR500 Armor revolutionized the steel core armor industry by being first to market with our fragmentation and spall mitigation build-up coat. Since then, we’ve continued to master and refine the process...so much so we consider it an art form, utilizing artisan-level craftsmen in its application.
First, we employ a multistep process to clean and prepare the steel armor cores for both our FragLock base coating and FragLock build-up coat application process.
Then, the craftsmen of the Armored Republic use a long-developed process to apply our FragLock coating to just the right thickness...a thickness our testing has shown to be the best balance of elasticity and durability, about 5x the thickness of our base coat.
After curing, the plates then go through a multi-stage quality control process to ensure the coating has been evenly applied and is free from performance and cosmetic imperfections.
Even with all this, we continually test our current and potential formulas to make sure we bring you the very best frag and spall mitigation coating on the market.
And our testing is clear...AR500 Armor’s FragLock Build-Up Coat is the best level of frag containment for the money. But don’t take our word for it. Watch the video and hit the link below.
The results speak for themselves.
Check out more information here:
https://www.ar500armor.com/spallandfrag.html
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Checking out the Veritas™ Plate Carrier!
Today Anthony takes us on a deeper dive of the Veritas™ plate carrier! If you've been curious about this carrier and if it is a right fit for you - check this video out and let us know what you think in the comments below!
Build your OWN Veritas™ bundle!
https://www.ar500armor.com/veritas-bundle.html
How to Adjust Your Veritas or Testudo Cummerbund
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4kWTNTbxs8
How to Adjust and Attach Your Veritas Cummerbund Kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiynT7B9NtM
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Steel Body Armor Plates!
Hello Rumble! We are AR500 Armor - We're happy to be here! We are a USA based Body Armor manufacturer!
If you are new to Body Armor, it can be overwhelming picking out what you actually need and what you don't- Michael joins us today to dive a little deeper on what all these different levels and letters mean!
About AR500 Armor:
AR500 Armor® launched its own line of ballistic armor and body armor solutions in 2012. We entered the industry with the mindset of manufacturing top quality, reliable products that offered our customers high value solutions. Our products are intended for responsible law-abiding American citizens, our law-enforcement personnel, and our military personnel; we currently sell to legal residents of the United States.
With our unique in-house manufacturing processes and ability to acquire material made to our specifications, we’ve set the standard for ballistic steel core body armor. Utilizing industry leading spall and fragmentation mitigation coatings we've further increased what's possible with ballistic steel. Our products are available through our website and authorized dealers throughout the United States. AR500 Armor® is a privately held business; Our Headquarters, team members, and manufacturing facility are located in Phoenix, Arizona.
We would like to extend a sincere thank you for taking the time to visit our website. Should you have any questions please don’t hesitate to let us know.
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