CAST2020/BA/01rev. 2020ACTIVE

CAST Body Armour Standard 2020 — Operational Requirements

UK Centre for Applied Science and Technology (successor to HOSDB) operational body armor standard. Aligns threat classes with NIJ 0101.07 while keeping UK-specific edged-weapon and spike-resistance components.

Body armor

Authoritative source

Threat levels

Level	Threat	Velocity (m/s)
HG1A	9mm FMJ	365
HG2	.357 Mag SJHP	430
RF1	7.62x51 NATO Ball	838
RF2	7.62x39 API (MSC)	725
KR1+SP	Engineered knife + spike 24J	—

Published test conditions for CAST 2020/BA/01. Follow the authoritative source for the exact test protocol and acceptance criteria.

Published

Oct 1, 2020

Effective

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Certified products (on ArmorOS)

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Slug

cast-2020

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