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 ...

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.

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 announced Thursday that it will withdraw from service more than 16,000 sets of ceramic body armor plates that the Pentagon's inspector general believes were not properly tested and could ...

The Army is planning to send thousands of ceramic body armor plates to Iraq this year to better protect soldiers while the Marine Corps is in the process of delivering such gear, military officers ...

The armor plates used in the plate carriers and IOTV Soldiers wear in combat are safe -- maybe too safe. Heavy body armor result of over-engineering By C. Todd Lopez March 18, 2011 ...

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 ...