A system for the inductive transmission of power from a primary coil and its associated primary circuits to a secondary coil and its associated secondary circuits, and for the inductive transmission of data between the primary and secondary coils and their associated circuits, wherein the primary coil and associated primary circuits are mounted in cooperation with a tactical garment having a hard body-armor plate, the system comprising: said hard body-armor plate having a strike-face and an opposite rear face and which is non-magnetic and non-electrically conductive to at least a first depth behind said strike-face, and wherein said plate is mountable to or into said garment so that, when so mounted, said strike-face faces away from a user wearing said garment and said rear face faces towards the user wearing said garment, wherein said primary circuits are mounted embedded in said plate, and wherein said primary coil is embedded in said plate behind said strike-face a substantially uniform said first depth, and wherein the primary circuits are adapted to be electrically connected to a central power source carried on or in cooperation with said garment, a device pocket for an electronic hand-held device wherein said device pocket is mountable to an outer surface of said garment so as to be in an inductively coupling position aligned over said primary coil in said plate to thereby align said secondary coil of said hand-held device, when in said device pocket, over and into inductively coupled registry with said primary coil and wherein said pocket maintains said secondary coil at a substantially uniform second distance off said outer surface of said garment, and wherein the sum of said first depth and said distance is an air-gap equivalent in the range of substantially one to tem millimetres for the inductively coupled transfer of power and data across said air-gap equivalent. said hard body-armor plate having a strike-face and an opposite rear face and which is non-magnetic and non-electrically conductive to at least a first depth behind said strike-face, and wherein said plate is mountable to or into said garment so that, when so mounted, said strike-face faces away from a user wearing said garment and said rear face faces towards the user wearing said garment, wherein said primary circuits are mounted embedded in said plate, and wherein said primary coil is embedded in said plate behind said strike-face a substantially uniform said first depth, and wherein the primary circuits are adapted to be electrically connected to a central power source carried on or in cooperation with said garment, a device pocket for an electronic hand-held device wherein said device pocket is mountable to an outer surface of said garment so as to be in an inductively coupling position aligned over said primary coil in said plate to thereby align said secondary coil of said hand-held device, when in said device pocket, over and into inductively coupled registry with said primary coil and wherein said pocket maintains said secondary coil at a substantially uniform second distance off said outer surface of said garment, and wherein the sum of said first depth and said distance is an air-gap equivalent in the range of substantially one to tem millimetres for the inductively coupled transfer of power and data across said air-gap equivalent.