Team Wendy’s Non-Ballistic Training Plates allows officers to “train like you fight” without risk to life-saving body armor components. Made from a virtually indestructible, density-modifiable, ...

The Marine Corps recently called on defense firms to submit proposals for a new lightweight body armor plate that's about 38 percent lighter than the current plates used to protect Marines from rifle ...

U.S. Army equipment experts plan to test lighter-weight, individual body armor plates by this summer, according to a recently released Defense Department test and evaluation report. The Army's ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 2, 2009) -- The Army is collecting more than 16,000 sets of body armor ballistic inserts, even though it considers those inserts to be fully capable of doing the ...