This inaugural Winner of the 2024 Body Armor Innovation Award DuPont Life Protection for Kevlar® EXOTM Material award recognizes outstanding achievements in body armor technology, and DuPont's ...
Kevlar has gone on to save countless lives as body armor for the police and military. Its most famous application is the Kevlar vest. A police officer from Virginia even had Stephanie autograph ...
Even while wearing Kevlar body armor, warfighters often face grave injury when shot due to blunt force trauma. Davidson, a North Carolina-based Greenhill AntiBallistics Corporation, may have found ...
Someone followed Zygielbaum home during a recent election, prompting the local sheriff to recommend he start wearing body ...
Armor Matrix Systems tested its new GEN7-IIIA-PP ballistic panel in an extreme torture test at a New Mexico shooting range, ...
In this first installment, Ganor investigates the famed linen armor of Ancient Greece, known as the linothorax.
As per the latest market estimation published by Future Market Insights (FMI), the global high performance fibers for defense ...
Hybrid laminates combining Kevlar and carbon fiber layers with CNTs show even greater improvements, with a 67.48 % increase in energy absorption and a 28.7 % enhancement in ballistic limit. Smart ...
DuPontâ„¢ Kevlar® EXOâ„¢ was first introduced to the life protection market in April 2023, enabling body armor with an unprecedented combination of flexibility and lightweight strength from an ...
For the last several decades, modern body armour has been made from synthetic fibres such as Kevlar, combined with either metal or ceramic plates known as trauma plates. While good at stopping ...