Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The war between Ukraine and Russia has highlighted the importance of body armor for soldiers, and the deadly consequences when it is lacking. Body armor is ...

WASHINGTON - Just 29 Army soldiers have sought reimbursement so far for body armor and other equipment they bought to protect themselves on the front lines. The scant number of requests are largely ...

NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ceradyne Inc. , which makes ceramic plates for body armor, on Wednesday posted better-than-expected earnings in the third quarter, driving its shares up 8 percent, as sales ...

BODY ARMOR: Ceradyne Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif., has received two orders worth $6.4 million to provide elite U.S. military personnel with ceramic body armor, the company said Nov. 29. The orders are ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Army, under pressure to issue more protective gear to its soldiers in Iraq, has signed a $70 million emergency contract with a California company to rush ceramic body armor to ...

When a man stepped into a Buffalo grocery store last Saturday with an AR-15-style rifle, the store’s security guard tried to stop the shooting by firing his own weapon back at the suspected shooter.

ARMOR ORDERS: Ceradyne Inc. of Costa Mesa, Calif., said Sept. 30 that it will fill two orders worth $9.1 million for ceramic body armor for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. The Army's order is worth $4 ...

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Ceradyne said it has received orders for its ceramic body armor systems worth a total of $17.2 million from government agencies. The Costa, Mesa, Calif., firm said it would begin ...

Costa Mesa-based Ceradyne Inc. shares dropped 8% in morning trading on news of its second-quarter earnings. Ceradyne makes body armor for military applications, industrial components, crucibles for ...

During Phases I and II of the study, the committee was requested to consider the use of statistics to permit a more scientific determination of sample sizes to be used in body armor testing.