These experiments showed that the novel material protected against high-speed impacts better than Kevlar fabric and steel plates. This provides the basis for high-performance, ultralight armor ...

For example, the traditional Kevlar fabric that would go into soft body armor weighs about 1 pound per square foot, and you need more than one square foot to do the job. But a new kind of Kevlar ...

I know, I know -- at this point, it's hardly surprising that graphene would make the ideal material for thin and light bulletproof armor ... structure (a ceramic plate, perhaps), or just by ...

Then when I deployed to Afghanistan, I received the Interceptor Body Armor vest. Neither was particularly comfortable. They're heavy. They're hot. But after being shown a Kevlar plate with a ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Jan. 17, 2013) -- It's the summer of 2005 and a squad of New York Army National Guard Soldiers is on patrol in Iraq. In an instant, their medic is struck by a round fired ...

They offer a proprietary Kevlar weave that is somewhat malleable up to rigid ceramic and steel plates. “Soft Armor (Kevlar) is for protection against common handgun rounds,” Campbell said.

Ceramic based armor plates used in current body armor systems ... To this end, BAE says it can be integrated into standard Kevlar body armor to offer superior freedom of motion and a reduction ...

Typically it is hard body armor, a ballistic vest with at least two large, hard ceramic plates, designed to protect ... DuPont’s Kevlar fiber, the soft armor fiber widely adopted by law ...

UHMWPE is primarily intended to replace Kevlar in soft armor applications, but it can also be used to create plates that are almost half the weight of traditional ceramic ones—but far more durable.