Deep Springs Technology's Flexible Body Armor, presented at SOCOM TALOS.

One system incorporates Boron Carbide (B4C) ceramic balls tightly wound using para-aramid filament and encapsulated within a lightweight flexible polymer with buoyancy provided by a foam spall liner backing. The other solution features an interlocking hex tile. Key attribute of hex tile design is the interlocking plates provide flexibility, and during a ballistic impact tiles lock up and form a single large ceramic plate to reduce the blunt force trauma.