Spartan Armor Systems currently has two lines of steel core products: Spartan™ Omega™ AR500 level III and Spartan AR550 level III+ body armor. Steel armor can be stored, nearly indefinitely, with ...

In every application where weight is a key design parameter—like aerospace and body armor engineering—what matters isn’t strength, it’s specific strength, which is a material’s strength-to-weight ...

Spartan Armor Systems' signature product is the Spartan™ AR500 Omega™ and AR550 ballistic steel body armor with Spartan Armor's Encapsaloc™ fragmentation coating that provides rifle rated ...

The rocker armor is constructed using 3/16-inch and 1/4-inch steel and use 27 mounting points to secure the skids to the uni-body, pinch seam, and rear spring hanger.

Kevlar body armor saves lives, and the high end vests can even stop armor piercing rounds. But that kind of protection comes at the cost of added heavy weight. A Czech Republic university is using ...

Using a special technique to make lighter-weight steel body armor that can stop high-velocity rifle rounds, the company has seen sales of its "Active Shooter Kits" soar.