Dragon Skin® Flexible Body Armor Survivors
At Pinnacle Armor, our Mission is to save lives. We are committed to providing products and services that are unequalled in threat protection, designed and manufactured to perform in life or death situations. Our products consistently establish new benchmarks for protection product certification, and our advanced materials know-how cost-effectively solves our client's immediate and long-term protection needs.
Our SOV Dragon Skin® technology is no exception. In fact, the technology behind the Dragon Skin is setting unprecedented performance capabilities, while saving the lives of the many men and women who put their lives in harms way every single day to protect us domestically and abroad.
Our trademark "Protecting The Lives Of Those Who Protect US"® speaks for the time and effort that has gone into the design, fabrication and optimization of a system that is truly designed to provide survivability to the wearer. The incredible saves that this armor system provides, speaks to the testament of the systems capabilities. Substantial multiple repeat hit capability, little to no bruising at all from impacts, close proximity shots, close edge shots, and having the coverage necessary to defeat the threats.
This section of our web site is dedicated to those men and women who put their lives in harms way every single day to protect us. Those men and women deserve literally the best body armor that technology has to offer. They are often provided with far less. Fortunately, many of the men and women wearing the Dragon Skin® body armor have not been shot. Those who have are listed below with their consent. Those who for deployment and/or operational status wish to remain anonymous, they are listed in the numbers, with limited information.
Pinnacle Armor wishes each and every one of them the best and may God speed them home safely. We feel proud to have been of service to you.
Name: Rod Huckabay
Incident type: IED Ambush - Vehicular
Location: Najaf, Iraq
Employment: Eagle Team; PSD DynCorp International, Iraq
Details: Survived IED explosion with substantial fragmentation impacts to the upper chest region (within 3/4" from top of armor, full width of the armor) without failure or bruising.
Name: Jaco S. Botes
Incident type: IED Ambush - Vehicular
Location:Iraq
Employment: Team Black Cobra; PSD DynCorp International, Iraq
Details: Survived three impacts from 7.62x39mm API. Two rounds in lower back one inch apart and one in the upper portion of back. Did not even bruise from impacts sustained in body armor.
Name: N/A
Incident type: Patrol Ambush, U.S. Special Operations
Incident: Afghanistan
Employment: U.S. Military
Details: Survived seven impacts from 7.62x54R LPS. All seven rounds contained in approximately 5" impact location within upper front torso.
Name: N/A
Incident type: Sniper encounter
Location: Iraq
Employment: Reconstruction Contractor
Details: Survived five impacts from 7.62x39 mild steel core. All five rounds impacted the front, sides and rear of the vest while descending from power pole repair work. Did not even bruise from impacts sustained in body armor.
Each of these Dragon Skin® "Survivors" will receive the letterman jacket (100% wool & 100% leather) as shown embroidered front and rear along with the embroidered cap for their submission of the incident information, photographs of the armor and/or armor submission back to Pinnacle Armor.
