#interceptor body armor

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By Roger Charles On Friday of last week, MajGen Jeffrey Sorenson of the US Army stood up at a press conference and attempted, one more time, to drive a stake through the heart of that pesky Dragon Skin body armor, but, unlike the brittle SAPI plates of the Interceptor Body Armor (IBA), Dragon Skin has proven capable of stopping multiple hits. Sorenson will, no doubt, be rewarded for his extraordinary display of E-ring valor -- he tried, and gave it his all. I expect the citation for his end of tour award will include...

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Designer of Interceptor Body Armor: The "Ugly" Truth About Army & Contractors Ignoring Stringent Test Requirements for Interceptor Body Armor The body armor testing violations cited in the DOD IG report is actually worse than it seems on the surface. Once the procurement reached mass quantities (starting 2004+), Ceradyne and Armor Holdings (the largest suppliers of SAPI and ESAPI plates), and Point Blank Body Armor (PBBA, the largest supplier of the Interceptor vests Kevlar/Spectra soft body armor) were probably allowed to submit a "certification" paper, for each Army contract, validating the stopping...