There has been much publicity behind the
scalar type armor made of discus shaped tiles called
"Dragon Skin". Pinnacle Armor has also been at odds with the
military as it pertains to why the military hasn't adopted this system.
There are quite a few reasons, and if you have read the Pinnacle Armor propaganda you
will hear about tales of fraud, sabotage, and protection of the good old boy network as it relates to
the "Interceptor Vest". I can tell you as someone who works with the military on this kind of endeavor there are a lot of reasons why this armor hasn't been universally adopted and the reasons above are basically false. The truth is Pinnacle Armor received clearance to forward samples to the Army and was paid 170,000 dollars, and that was after they were paid almost a 1,000,000.00 dollars to
develop the armor from where we left off after we sold patent rights to Pinnacle Armor in October of 2000.
The major flaw was not observing the Article One testing environmental conditioning protocol, which calls for the armor to withstand 165 degrees F for 6 hours. After five years of development and having the protocol in hand you would figure that the adhesive used to affix the tiles to the high strength fabric would be of the high temperature variety, it wasn't, and because of that these vests failed. OOPS!
We certainly won't be the ones to say the technology isn't good, we believe it is the future, but since our non-compete agreement expired with Pinnacle Armor we have entered the market and have our own flexible armor that doesn't use dependent claims to achieve a workable tile capable of flexible
operation and defeat of the A.P. rifle threats. Kodos for Pinnacle Armor and their saves with this system, but we're back and soon will enter the market with fully functional flexible rifle armor.
The fact is most of Pinnacle Armor's systems were invented by Allan D. Bain formally of Armor Technology Corp.. Pinnacle Armor started manufacturing after we educated Mr. Neal how to make armor by contract executed in October of 2000 that was fair and honestly fulfilled. Pinnacle Armor and Mr. Neal never manufactured any body armor prior to this date. So if you hear about Pinnacle Armor or the "Dragon Skin" armor being manufactured since 1995 your talking about armor that Pinnacle Armor never made or developed. In fact Murray Neal was a sales representative for Armor Technology from 1997 - October of 2000 a company owned entirely by Allan D. Bain, the true inventor of Dragon Skin.
In a few months look for our products as they leave the development stage and begin service. For more info review our products page for updates as they occur.
