Flexible body armor

Abstract

Implementations described and claimed herein provide a ballistic filler for a flexible soft body armor and methods of manufacturing the same. In one implementation, a first portion having a first subpanel is stitched directly to a second subpanel with a stitching pattern. The first subpanel has one or more layers of woven fabric, and the second subpanel has one or more layers of unidirectional fabric. A second portion backs the first portion. The second portion has one or more layers of unstitched unidirectional fabric.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A flexible body armor ballistic filler comprising:
 a first region comprising one or more flexible ballistic ply structures generated from a high strength yarn backing a stitch consolidated assembly of one or more plies of woven fabric generated from ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene yarn; and   a second region comprising one or more unstitched ballistic ply structures generated from the high strength yarn.