Usually, it takes a lot of heavy, cumbersome metal to stop a bullet. Conventional body armor uses heavy steel or ceramic plates inside a kevlar vest to stop the massive kinetic energy of an ...

While body armor systems have been around almost as long as firearms have, systems able to reliably stop rifle rounds have only been around in the last fifty years (or less!). These systems use a ...

Dyneema Hard Armor Sapi Plates are often the choice of many law Enforcement officers because of the weight difference between ceramic hard armor plates. Weigh 1.5 KG. or 3.3 lbs. each Used in ...

Six defense contractors produced more than 5 million bullet-proof body armor inserts whose quality the Army cannot guarantee, at a cost of upwards of $2.5 billion. An audit by the Department of ...

New York's new law barring sales of bullet-resistant vests to most civilians does not cover the type of armor worn by the gunman who killed 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket, a gap that could limit ...