Plate armor is capable of stopping rifle rounds all the way up to 308 Winchester. The ballistic mitigation on plate armor is higher than the standard Kevlar soft body armor which ...

For other helmet and tactical plate designs, Kevlar XP for Hard Armor can offer 20 percent higher ballistic performance and increased protection, without sacrificing other performance requirements.

From Kevlar to trauma plates, here’s what’s real, what’s fiction, and what might just save your life.

Why Your Loadout Starts With a Rifle, and Armor From Lexington Green, to the rooftops of Koreatown, Americans have always answered chaos not with helplessness, but with resolve. Back then, they called ...

SAPI plates, manufactured from a combination of ceramic and Kevlar, absorb kinetic energy from the strike of a projectile. Though the plates are effective, they are brittle and rigid.

For example, regular Kevlar is roughly 0.26 or .27 inches thick, and the new material could be as thin as 0.19 inches, says Hovanec. “It’s a noticeable decrease in thickness of the material.” ...

Not long ago the term body armor would have felt straight out of a war movie or military-style video game. But in 2020, it's just another item on the average family's disaster-preparedness checklist.

That can’t be done as easily with materials such as steel, or even Kevlar. But microscopic nanotechnology procedures are allowing for new approaches to building these structures, he said.

The team wants to develop a full suit of fish-scale body armor -- rigid and strong across the torso, more flexible towards the joints -- for the U.S. military that could replace the heavy Kevlar ...

Kevlar has been the Army's go-to body armor for decades, but a new technology might be challenging that paradigm. Kraig Biocraft, a bioengineering company based in Michigan, has genetically ...