Bulletproof Vest, Ballistic Helmet, Bulletproof Vests
Scalable plate carriers, which allow leathernecks to adjust the amount of protection they carry, are lighter than the modular tactical vests, or MTVs, being used now. They have been issued across the Corps and are intended primarily for use in...
The Army plans to buy 120,000 sets of the advanced bullet-blocking plates this year. This initial purchase of the hard armor plates, known as "XSAPI," will be stocked in Kuwait and be available if commanders need them, service officials said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
The quality of...
In July 2008, the National Institute of Justice released NIJ Standard-0101.06, Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor, the latest evolution in standards by which law enforcement protective vests are measured. The “.06†standard “establishes minimum performance requirements and test...
Figures released under Freedom of Information legislation uncovered almost 7,500 addresses where ambulance staff require a police escort or are advised to exercise caution because of the potential for violence.
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The true figure is certainly higher, as the details revealed relate...
Knoxville Police Chief Sterling P. Owen IV told City Council members Friday that he recently approved a new sleeveless "bulletproof vest carrier" for departmental use that officers can wear over their uniform.
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It's a more convenient option than the traditional, and often...
As he campaigned yesterday in 13 New Hampshire towns, less than a week after a woman pointed a loaded pistol at him in California, reporters felt sure he was wearing a protective vest.
He plunged at random into overwhelmingly friendly crowds.
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White House and...
In recent weeks, the U.S. mainstream press has trumpeted warnings issued by Washington bureaucrats that narco-traffickers in Mexico are kidnapping and murdering U.S. citizens in Mexico and that law enforcers along the border are being targeted by the “cartels.â€
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Ballistic Vests, Bulletproof Vest, Ballistic Helmet
Oxford researchers have developed an ultra-lightweight material for body armour that is so strong bullets will bounce off it.
The new design will mean that bullet-proof vests can be made that are thinner, lighter, more flexible, and so more...
We had been warned that Nadia was something of a firebrand and, as we walked towards her front door, it appeared that our advisers had been spot on in their assessment.
Her battered Chevrolet van was swathed in scores of political bumper stickers, professing hate for both the Palestinian...
Journalism and public relations go together like chalk and cheese. The best journalists are those dedicated to the disclosure of the truth. They are answerable ultimately to their readers, and they try to avoid the influence of vested interest. Us PR people on the other hand . . .
Most UK PR...
Every morning of every weekday for 12 years, Thomas Montgomery clocked on at the Dynabrade factory in Clarence, a small town in upstate New York. He strapped on his goggles and stood at his machine until the late afternoon, churning out components for power tools. After work, he walked the family...
The man with the wire-frame glasses, the greying hair and the rumpled blue shirt makes for an unlikely superstar.
"Today we will talk exclusively about work and energy," he says, turning from his audience, chalk in hand, to spend the best part of an hour adorning a blackboard with mathematical...
Dog of war summons m'learned friends
No sooner has the Equatorial Guinea coup mercenary Simon Mann disappeared from the news than another mercenary takes his place. Tim Spicer, CEO of Aegis Defence Services, has started legal action against a former diplomat he fears may have libelled him in a...
When Canon Gene Robinson was consecrated as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003, the world's first openly gay Anglican bishop, such was the ferocity of the opposition from right-wing evangelicals that he was forced to wear a bulletproof vest for the ceremony. Tomorrow he appears at the Southbank...
Out and scout discrimination
Should children be forced to swear that they will do their "duty to God" before they are allowed to be scouts? And should adults be banned from being scout leaders if they do not believe in God?
No, say the National Secular Society and the British Humanist...
As if from nowhere the police helicopter roared into the skies over the Morro da Pedreira shantytown, darting erratically from side to side with two snipers leaning out from either side.
Seconds later the unmistakable sound of gunfire rang out above the conflict-ridden area of suburban Rio de...
When it comes to our fertility choices, women often seem damned whatever we do. Teenage mothers are depicted as dumb, feckless drains on the state - as, of course, are single mothers - while older women who decide to start a family are painted as selfish shrews who put career before motherhood. In...
The Lambeth Conference opened on Sunday with the one person who the Anglican communion are getting their vicars in a twist over, cast out. The Bishop of New Hampshire, Gene Robinson, the world's first openly gay bishop is also the first bishop in history to not get an invite.
He has had to put...
There will be no prosecutions over the death of ITN journalist Terry Lloyd, killed in Iraq in 2003, after the Crown Prosecution Service said today there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against any individuals.
Sue Hemming, the head of the CPS counter-terrorism division, said it was not...
Things are ugly in Qarne Shomron for Beni Raz. He's a solid man in middle age with a deeply lined, expressive face. The day we meet, one of the residents of his West Bank settlement has tried to take down one of Raz's posters calling for compensation for those who want to evacuate.
He also...
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