Body Armor 101 – How Do You Choose the Right One? There are tons of body armor options out there for departments and individual first responders to choose among. From soft inserts to ceramic plates to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The war between Ukraine and Russia has highlighted the importance of body armor for soldiers, and the deadly consequences when it is lacking. Body armor is ...

“Everything but the kitchen sink” might as well be the maxim of post-9/11 Marines who lugged half their body weight across Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, after years of bad backs, aching knees, and ...

Soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan face danger every day, but thanks to high-tech ceramics developed since the late 1960s, they have protection against numerous ballistic threats. In best-case ...

WASHINGTON – The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S.

Polyethylene is the most commonly used plastic in the world. UHMWPE is a subset of polyethylene that has the strength to weight ratio 8-15 times greater than steel. The new PE, UHMWPE body armor ...

STOW, Ohio, June 25, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ShotStop(R) Ballistics Technologies, LLC (ShotStop), an innovative and leading manufacturer of patented and patent-pending advanced ballistic ...

A video clip showing testing of the revolutionary Dragon Skin body armor made from advanced ceramic and titanium composite discs that interlink with each other allowing impact energy of the bullet to ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Jan. 17, 2013) -- It's the summer of 2005 and a squad of New York Army National Guard Soldiers is on patrol in Iraq. In an instant, their medic is struck by a round fired from ...

U.S. Special Operations Command is recalling thousands of body armor plates after discovering a manufacturer’s defect that could put operators at risk. At the same time defense industry experts are ...

The U.S. Army didn't bother to properly test five million body armor plates that were supposed to protect soldiers on the battlefield. In some cases, certain tests of the live-saving gear were ignored ...

WASHINGTON – The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S.