WASHINGTON – The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S.

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 is mainly designed to ...

The Marine Corps is looking for lighter protective plates for Marines' body armor (Pfc. Nicholas Guevara/Marine Corps). The Marine Corps has a weight problem. An infantry rifleman may have to haul 100 ...

Tacprogear BLACK includes the Citadel Series of hard armor plates. The plates have been tested and certified to NIJ STD 0101.06 for the application of concealable body armor, external carriers, plate ...

Detroit, Aug. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global body armor plates market size was valued at US$962.4 million in 2024 and is projected to reach US$1225 million by 2031, witnessing a market growth ...

Body armor maker AR500 Armor of Phoenix, Arizona, is recalling Level III Body Armor plates shipped between Feb. 23 and March 23, 2016 and bears a manufacture date for those same months. “The [product] ...

Report Ocean has published a new report on the Body Armor Plates Market, delivering an extensive analysis of key factors such as market restraints, drivers, and opportunities. The report offers a ...

The U.S. Army didn't bother to properly test five million body armor plates that were supposed to protect soldiers on the battlefield. In some cases, certain tests of the live-saving gear were ignored ...

U.S. Army equipment experts plan to test lighter-weight, individual body armor plates by this summer, according to a recently released Defense Department test and evaluation report. The Army's ...

WASHINGTON – The Army improperly tested new bullet-blocking plates for body armor and cannot be certain that 5 million pieces of the critical battlefield equipment meet the standards to protect U.S.