This wild experiment puts professional tactical body armor to the ultimate test by putting it face-to-face with one of the ...

A charging rhinoceros creates far more force than a bulletproof vest is designed to handle, making body armor nearly useless ...

But the potential for silk as ballistic body armor had been recognized more than two centuries earlier, by Leibniz. Although best known in his own day—and even in the present-day—as a mathematician ...

Body armor panels throughout the full-body exoskeleton provide ballistic protection up to the European standard of VPAM 8. This means that they can withstand being hit by three 7.62 × 39-mm rounds ...

As a heatwave soared through Europe last week, Eurosatory 2026 was soaked in the Parisian summer sun. Despite attendees ...

The new "Obereg 2.0" is the latest iteration in a series of advanced Russian body armor concepts—most of which have never been distributed to the country's frontline infantry. Here’s What You Need to ...

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