A revolutionary new armor relies on a liquid that hardens ... warriors has long meant weight and bulk from ceramic plates and Kevlar that cover large areas of the body but reduce maneuverability ...

Ceramic based armor plates used in current body armor systems to cover large areas of the torso ... BAE says it can be integrated into standard Kevlar body armor to offer superior freedom of ...

The sturdy armor of the dragon fish (Polypterus senegalus) has kept this tough, ancient species going for 96 million years – since the Cretaceous! Each scale that covers its long body has ...

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 ...

But just as quickly, the medic springs back up and moves to cover ... Kevlar backing in the plate carrier and effectively acts as a two-step countermeasure." When a round or fragment strikes the ...

Bulletproof armor, from early metal plate to kevlar to more advanced concepts ... but possibly be light and useful enough to cover much more of a soldier’s body. Increasing the life expectancy ...

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 ...

The 1960s saw the creation of Kevlar, a carbon aramid that, when tightly woven into flexible fabric was resilient to bullets – the seemingly perfect composition for body armor. While still ...

Including both the company’s Minuteman plate carrier and a pair of 1/4"-thick, 10"x12" armor plates ... The plates can also be ordered wrapped in Kevlar to help them resist both fragmentation ...