Selecting good body armor plates is one hell of a business. And you’ve got to learn it quickly now if you don’t want to find out the hard way that your armor plate sucks. So, how do you select a body ...

The lightweight body armor plates have to cover your back and the torso. A standard steel plate of 10"X 12"weighs 3.6 kg each. Therefore, about 7.2 kg weight rests on shoulders of an individual ...

You don’t armor up because you’re spoiling for a fight—you do it because deep down, you know no one’s coming, and it’s your ...

The Army intends to test new, lighter-weight armor plates in third quarter of fiscal 2019, according to the Fiscal 2018 Annual Report from the Defense Department's Director, Operational Test and ...

Together, the lightweight plates reportedly achieve a 7-14 percent weight reduction over the current armor plates issued to soldiers downrange, according to the Army.

Related: Army to Test Out Lighter Body Armor Plates This Year. Potts said the new design offers slightly less coverage in the upper chest closest to the shoulder pocket.

The Army is fielding a new body armor system, including the Modular Scalable Vest. The MSV and other items in the system have purpose-built design features for female body types. Soldiers here ...

Major players in the body armor plates market are Armored Republic LLC, BAE Systems, Ceradyne Inc., Craig International Ballistics Pty Ltd, Helweg International, Kejo Limited Company, Pacific ...

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. troops ...

Body armor is something Golden-based CoorsTek knows well. It has produced ceramic plates used to protect soldiers from bullets and shrapnel since the 1960s.