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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Well, well. Just a few days back, a Marine report came to light blaming some troops' deaths on the lack of plates in their body armor -- particularly side plates that protect the warfighters' flanks.

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 ...

PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. (Jan. 17, 2013) -- It's the summer of 2005 and a squad of New York Army National Guard Soldiers is on patrol in Iraq. In an instant, their medic is struck by a round fired from ...

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 ...

Zachary M. Peterson, Side SAPI plates requirement to be met in April: CATTO: IMPROVEMENTS TO MARINE BODY ARMOR HAVE BEEN ‘EVOLUTIONARY', Inside the Navy, Vol. 19, No. 5 (February 6, 2006), pp. 7-8 ...

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 ...

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 ...