Heavy impact plating: Difference between revisions

'''Heavy Impact Plating''' (also known as '''Heavy Blast Armor''') is a type and variation of body [[armor]] system used by [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Army|soldiers]] and [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]]. It is worn over the wearer's [[Fatigues|camouflage utility uniform]], and is composed of metal segments that bulwark and protect everything vital from the neck to the knees.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 9''</ref> Impact plating is impervious to light handheld firearms such as [[Unidentified automatic pistol|automatic pistols]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 11''</ref>

Impact plating was usually not worn for rapid, airborne strikes, but [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson]] and [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Nolan Byrne]] were ordered to wear impact plating on their assault on an [[Insurrectionist]] bomb-shop on the UNSC planet [[Tribute]].<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''', ''page 10''</ref>