Together, the lightweight plates reportedly achieve a 7-14 percent weight reduction over the current armor plates issued to soldiers downrange, according to the Army.

The Corps is also gearing up to field its new lightweight body armor plates, designed to be worn in the Corps’ low intensity or counterinsurgency style conflicts.

In the real world, however, we await the incredible lightweight, near indestructible protection of body armor comprised of spider silk. That is, spider silk spun by genetically modified silk worms.

The new plate carrier is intended for use in conjunction with new lightweight body armor plates that, as Marine Corps Times previously reported, will reduce the hard body armor weight burden for ...

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A small engineering firm in Orange County, Calif., has hit a bonanza with a hard ceramic material used for lightweight body armor. Demand for the product in the past five years has pushed the ...

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ShotStop’s HA Level IV ballistic body armor, made with patented Duritium (R) technology, is multi-hit and can defeat special threats including: 5.56x45mm 55 grain ball (M193), 7.62x39mm PS ball ...