The U.S. Army is close to approving a new lightweight body armor plate with a "shooter's cut" to provide close-combat forces with greater mobility in combat. Program Executive Office Soldier officials ...

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 is mainly designed to ...

“Everything but the kitchen sink” might as well be the maxim of post-9/11 Marines who lugged half their body weight across Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, after years of bad backs, aching knees, and ...

The Marine Corps is asking defense firms to submit ideas for a new, lightweight body armor plate that can withstand two hits from non-armor piercing rounds. "Marine Corps Systems Command will assess ...

Polyethylene is the most commonly used plastic in the world. UHMWPE is a subset of polyethylene that has the strength to weight ratio 8-15 times greater than steel. The new PE, UHMWPE body armor ...

Cpl. Carson P. Burke, a rifleman with Kilo Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, carries an M240G machine gun during the Advanced Infantry Course (AIC) aboard Kahuku Training Area, Hawaii, July ...

STOW, Ohio, June 25, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ShotStop(R) Ballistics Technologies, LLC (ShotStop), an innovative and leading manufacturer of patented and patent-pending advanced ballistic ...

AVENTURA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safe Pro Group Inc. (Nasdaq: SPAI) (“Safe Pro” or the “Company”), a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions specializing in drone imagery processing ...

Point Blank Enterprises has won a potential five-year, $215.9M contract to deliver 680,706 lightweight body armor plates to the U.S. Marine Corps. Marine Corps ...

A small engineering firm in Orange County, Calif., has hit a bonanza with a hard ceramic material used for lightweight body armor. Demand for the product in the past five years has pushed the company ...