BAUMHOLDER, Germany (Army News Service, Jan. 25, 2008) -- For as long as the Army has used Interceptor Body Armor, Soldiers have complained that it is too heavy, too hot and too cumbersome.

After enduring a year of debate on the supremacy of its Interceptor Body Armor in relative silence, the Army is going public to put to rest any doubts that IBA is the best available and that it ...

News report suggested body armor worn by troops in Iraq is sub-par. May 21, 2007 — -- The Army held an unusual briefing Monday to aggressively challenge an NBC News report that questioned the ...

Spec.-Ops. Brand offers the OVER-ARMOR Vest for the Interceptor Body Armor System, the latest innovation in its line of high-performance tactical nylon gear for military, law enforcement and other ...

The Army insists the body armor troops are now wearing — called Interceptor — is the very best in the world. And, without question, those vests have saved lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Interceptor uses hard ceramic plates that don't bend. Coyle called for an evaluation of the two types of body armor in a side-by-side test administered by an independent group.

Since the Army’s initial fielding of Interceptor body armor in the late 1990s, equipment officials have made multiple improvements to this life-saving vest. The latest version of the Improved ...

The interceptor body armor but it's the vest. And then you have inside both the front and the back 11-pound ballistic ceramic, you know, protector — small arms protection inserts.

Federal Prison Industries in Washington, D.C., has received a $110.2 million contract for interceptor body armor and tactical vests for the U.S. Army.

Congress has allocated funds for all U.S. troops to wear 16-pound, ceramic-plated Interceptor body armor (search), but as many as 51,000 American soldiers and civilian administrators in Iraq have ...

Murray Neal, the CEO of Pinnacle Armor, says the Dragon Skin is a flexible body suit, which allows a soldier to move easily. Neal says the Interceptor System is ineffective and doesn't protect ...

The addition of silicon to boron carbide armor reduces the phase transformation by some 30 percent. Boron Carbide was used in the U.S. Army’s Interceptor Body Armor in the 2000s and early 2010s.