Scientists with the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) are the first to succeed at creating a ceramic window for all types of military vehicles that is not only 50 percent harder than current materials, ...

The war between Ukraine and Russia has highlighted the importance of body armor for soldiers, and the deadly consequences when it is lacking. Body armor is something Golden-based CoorsTek knows well.

SINTX Technologies Inc., a Salt Lake City-based original equipment manufacturer of advanced ceramics that entered the Maryland market in June 2022, Tuesday announced that equipment installation along ...

Boron carbide has already seen plenty of action as a material for body armor. But limitations in this ceramic's density and ability to tolerate complex shapes, have restricted it to small, flat, armor ...

A small engineering firm in Orange County, Calif., has hit a bonanza with a hard ceramic material used for lightweight body armor. Demand for the product in the past five years has pushed the company ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Future American Soldiers will be better protected in combat by stronger and lighter body armor thanks to innovative work at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Materials ...

Ceramic materials have become viable—even better—replacements for conventional metallic armor plates on tanks, personnel carriers and other armored vehicles. They not only resist penetration by most ...

Selecting good body armor plates is one hell of a business. And you’ve got to learn it quickly now if you don’t want to find out the hard way that your armor plate sucks. So, how do you select a body ...

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Ceramics maker Ceradyne Inc said it received a $107 million order for ceramic body armor plates from the U.S. Army. The new delivery order is scheduled to be shipped beginning ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Russia is not the only military power to be working on steel alternatives. The United Army Research Laboratory and the University of Buffalo have conducted ...