Modern helmets are more comfortable and used more regularly for day-to-day officer protection against today's better-armed criminals You could say that many law enforcement officers carry on a ...

Gun violence today is at one of its highest levels. Each year, thousands of deaths and injuries occur due to the use of illegal firearms—whether through robberies, assaults, home invasions, or other ...

While slashing through the streets of Baghdad and sending people to the hospitals at the rate of 100 an hour, American invasion forces wore the best lid money could buy, the Personal Armor System ...

WASHINGTON -- Army researchers in Massachusetts are developing technology that may soon yield a lightweight combat helmet that provides more protection than anything ever fielded. Representatives of ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global bulletproof helmet market report. This research report also lists 10 other prominent vendors that ...

The American combat helmet, used from the beginning of WWI to Iraq today, is one of the most iconic symbols of the U.S. Army. The story of its evolution is told in the upcoming DVD documentary "Steel ...

When U.S. soldiers received new helmets in the early 1980s, the reaction was dismay. The Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT) was supposed to offer better protection than the M1 helmet ...

The Singapore Army on 2 December launched a new set of personal equipment comprising a new lightweight and modular ballistic helmet and tactical load-bearing system (LBS) designed to boost soldier ...

NATICK, Mass. -- Sometimes you need to put on your thinking cap to develop the best helmets for warfighters. Scott Bennet has spent decades doing just that. Bennet has spent most of his nearly 30-year ...

What do the Akkadians, Greeks, Romans, and Americans all have in common? They all have combat helmets they wore in war. A warrior's best weapon is his head, and therefore needs protection. Some of the ...