Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past two weeks, two different 18-year-olds on opposite sides of the country stormed into spaces once presumed to be safe ...

Choosing the right concealable body armor in 2026 can feel overwhelming with so many ballistic vest options available online.

There's a new body armor and exoskeleton innovation that could be a game changer for those who serve and protect. It's called the ExoM Exoskeleton. This revolutionary product is designed to protect ...

This chapter discusses the foundational basis for the current body armor testing methodologies as practiced by military and law enforcement agencies. In the 1970s developments in fiber technology and ...

For decades, protection lagged far behind lethality on the battlefield. The only practical protection from bullets and dangerous flying objects was steel, but weight forced a tradeoff between ...

Retailers and manufacturers of body armor are reporting increased sales that are due in part to new customers seeking added protection following the recent spate of mass shootings. Representatives of ...

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 ...

When an 18-year-old 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 shooter ...

The Violence Project, a non-profit that tracks mass shooting trends, has found an uptick in the use of body armor during mass shootings. Twenty-one mass shooters over the past 40 years have worn body ...

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 ...

The purpose of this overview is to provide a broad introduction to the nature of ceramic body armor plates and helmets as used by many U.S. servicemen and women; the medical basis for determining the ...