User blog comment:USARMP/Ninjas in Mass Effect/@comment-3325589-20120408223908/@comment-4973403-20120410133617

Diyartifact: I don't know...I'm sure that a knife would have some problems getting through the Kevlar and ceramic plating in todays body armors, a solid enough blow with a blunt instrument may shatter the plate, but it would have done it's job and absorbed the strike. Now when I was wearing it if someone struck at my arms, legs, or face, that would have been completely exposed.