The Marine Corps is planning to field lighter and better fitting plate carriers and body armor, according to officials at Marine Corps Systems Command. The effort is a joint collaboration with the ...

the Marine Corps has finally started fielding next-generation body armor to lighten the load for grunts in the field. The new lightweight protective vest, known as the Plate Carrier Generation III ...

Soldiers with the 71st Ordnance Group (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) and 10th Chemical Hazardous Response Company participated in the final round of field ... the soft armor with plates.

(Army News Service, April 2, 2007) - The Army continues to upgrade body armor to increase protection from bullets and fragments, and soon will field the ... integrated side plate carriers decrease ...

(Photo by Matthew Cox/Military.com) U.S. Army equipment officials are working on a new lightweight, body armor system that combines a plate-carrier style vest with an armored combat shirt.

After years in development, the Army will field its brand new body armor ... pounds when fully equipped with front and side body armor plates, five pounds less than the current Improved Outer ...

Soldiers at Fort Carson, Colorado, took the Army’s new body armor into the field and put it to the test ... based on a medium-sized vest without ballistic plates, the Army said.