US Army/Devon L. Suits Less effective than the IHPS, the current helmet, the 3.3-pound ECH, is decidedly durable. It can definitely take a hit, as one lucky soldier demonstrated.

Potts described how body armor experts from the Army, Marine Corps and Special Operations Command did a "body armor sprint" to examine current body armor designs and "just simply tell us what we ...

The Army has issued an industry-wide request for a new kind of body armor that can defeat even more powerful rounds than the current ceramic plate and has opened the door for the new armor ...

Female soldiers in the U.S. Army have spent years fighting on modern battlefields with body armor designed for men. But the Army plans to change that poor-fitting scenario by field-testing new ...

In 2019 the Army expects to roll out a new, lighter body armor system. The armor will provide at least as much protection as today's system, but with more comfort, and greater flexibility to ...

This one's unsurprisingly been in the works for a little while now, but it looks like the US Army is getting a bit closer to actually deploying a new type of body armor that it hopes will protect ...

The US military is putting sensors on body armor to detect whether troops have been exposed to potentially harmful blasts. In the wake of an Iranian missile attack on US forces in Iraq in early ...

The Army's current body armor can weigh 30 pounds or more Washington CNN — American soldiers on the battlefield might one day depend on spiderwebs to save their lives.

SOUTHERN PINES, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In a recently published report, Vector Strategy forecasts that the US Military will procure $6 billion of body armor for US Army Soldiers and Marines between ...

Melissa Block speaks with Lynne Hennessey, a designer with the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, about new body armor that has been developed to accommodate ...

I live my life in a state of cautious optimism, so bear with me when I say this: Women in combat could maybe, finally get body armor that fits them properly.. A provision in the 2021 National ...

More than half of the tens of thousands of body armor plates worn by special operations forces in the U.S. military are being recalled for replacement, Military Times has learned.