It will not be tailored into a John Wick-style suit, which is the stuff ... over your traditional aramid, or Kevlar, or polyethylene,” says Hovanec. Body armor in general needs to meet a ...

is worn outside of the uniform and features greater protection than the standard-issue Kevlar vests most officers currently wear. The new body armor, however, likely wouldn’t be worn on a day-to ...

In the movies, the suits supposedly have Kevlar in them just like a real piece of ballistic body armor. The problem is, Kevlar is bulky. However, most of the real body armor you see — like a ...

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 ...

He added that the first armor application of Kevlar EXO was next generation Army bomb suit, which is currently ... effort aimed at optimizing the soft body armor product. “The long view to ...

In both cases, the suspects were wearing body armor ... often made out of Kevlar, a lightweight fiber five times stronger than steel. Hard armor plates, on the other hand, are made of thick ...

Today multinational chemical company DuPont DD unveiled a new version of Kevlar promising lighter, more flexible and more effective body armor. The company describes the new material, known as ...

DuPont™ Kevlar® has long been the advanced material behind high-performing body armor that protects those who serve. Now, with body armor crafted using Kevlar® EXO™, military and law ...