Ukraine is producing new, lightweight body armor designed to protect children from shrapnel during evacuations from combat zones. The Lviv Defense Cluster NGO plans to roll out 500 helmets and body ...

If you compared today’s daily uniform wear body armor to that of the 1970s or 1980s, you’d see some pretty big differences. The focus of this article is why those differences are beneficial for both ...

Throughout human history, many conflicts have resulted in battles and wars. Body armor has been of central importance in order to make combatants as safe as possible against a variety of weapons.

Apparently, engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego do. They are using the shell of the red abalone, a seaweed eating snail, as a guide for developing bullet-stopping armor.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Andrea Porter is stripping back the layers of bulletproof material as she researches ways to make body armor safer and more comfortable for women’s bodies. The Texas ...

Modern combat hard-suits have a "triple canopy" of protection for the wearer: shields, armor, and self-repair. The outermost layer is automatically generated through kinetic barrier emitters. Objects ...

When a man stepped into a Buffalo grocery store last Saturday with an AR-15-style rifle, the store’s security guard tried to stop the shooting by firing his own weapon back at the suspected shooter.