So there's this site called GearScout, and it's run by a real journalist named Rob Curtis. Using his keen sense of journalistic smell, he discovered that SOCOM's armor plates are defective. "They don't stop bullets" defective, not "they might discolor in sunlight" defective. The solution is...well there really is no solution. Bad plates are being identified through the highly scientific method of SOCOM dudes tapping their plates before every mission and listening for a "ting" instead of a "thud." Yes, every mission. The problem is described as a "latent delamination… Read More