In a contract award that will shock no one, Ceradyne has been awarded a $40m+ contract to supply the government of Afghanistan 242,000 SAPI plates. You have to wonder if Ceradyne will somehow be ...

November 28, 2012: Recently U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command) recalled several thousand ceramic composite plates (SAPI, for Small Arms Protective Inserts) used in the protective vests their ...

Small Arms Protective Inserts (SAPI) plates are the latest in personnel armor. The can defeat fragmentation and small arms fire. The SAPI plates are made of a ballistic ceramic tile and backed by ...

A U.S. Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft assigned to the 18th Aggressor Squadron takes off from Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, Oct. 6, 2014, during RED FLAG-Alaska 15-1. RF-A is a ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 4, 2011) -- New technology, including SAPI-plate-shaped batteries, came out of the recent limited user test for the Nett Warrior system. During a media roundtable ...

Neal's public campaign got Congress got involved, with hearings on Capitol Hill to get to the bottom of the controversy. Lawmakers ordered the Army to do further tests and the service asked industry ...

BAE Systems has completed the production of more than one million hard armor inserts under Department of Defense (DoD) contracts primarily in support of the US Army, the US Marine Corps and the ...

The Rhine Ordnance Barracks of 21st Theater Sustainment Command in Germany has received a new armor inspection system to inspect ballistic plates for deploying soldiers, the Army announced. It becomes ...

Dyneema Hard Armor Sapi Plates are often the choice of many law Enforcement officers because of the weight difference between ceramic hard armor plates. Weigh 1.5 KG. or 3.3 lbs. each Used in ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, Feb. 4, 2011) -- New technology, including SAPI-plate-shaped batteries, came out of the recent limited user test for the Nett Warrior system. During a media roundtable ...