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, and also makes ceramic plates to ...

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 ...

Standard level IV ceramic body armor is only ... enables high-powered rifle protection that is up to 45 percent thinner and up to 200 percent lighter than other body armor plates at same ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 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 ...