Plate armor is capable of stopping rifle rounds all the way up to 308 Winchester. The ballistic mitigation on plate armor is higher than the standard Kevlar soft body armor which ...

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 ...

Ensuring the integrity of ceramic body armor plates is the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal, N.J., which developed the Armor Inspection System.

There are some growing trends in armor plates that unfortunately expose issues we have in society itself. The growing daily threat to law enforcement has increased and changed ...

The arrestor was designed to reduce the spreading of cracks in the ceramic when dropped – a common characteristic of all ceramic body armor plates.

The body armor used by most U.S. troops comprises a ballistic vest with two large, hard ceramic plates that protect the upper body from bullets and shrapnel.

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 ...

U.S. Special Operations Command is recalling thousands of body armor plates after discovering a manufacture’s defect that could put operators at risk.

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, March 18, 2011) -- The armor plates used in the plate carriers and IOTV Soldiers wear in combat are safe -- maybe too safe. The ceramic enhanced small arms ...