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  2. Interceptor multi-threat body armor system - Wikipedia

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    The Interceptor multi-threat body armor system (IBA) is a bullet-resistant body armor system that was used by the United States Armed Forces during the 2000s, with some limited usage into the mid-2010s.

  3. Improved Outer Tactical Vest - Wikipedia

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    The Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) is an enhanced version of, and a replacement for, the older Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) component of the Interceptor multi-threat body armor system, as fielded by the United States Army beginning in the mid-2000s.

  4. Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops - Wikipedia

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    Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT, pronounced / ˈ p æ z ɡ ə t / PAZ-gət) is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the early 1980s until the early or mid-2000s, when the helmet and vest were succeeded by the Lightweight Helmet (LWH), Modular Integrated Communications Helmet (MICH), and Interceptor body armor (IBA) respectively.

  5. Dragon Skin - Wikipedia

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    Pinnacle Armor was a United States-based armor manufacturing company. It was founded in 2000 and was based in Fresno, California. Pinnacle acquired the patent rights Dragon Skin from Armor Technology Corp in 2000. [9]

  6. Small Arms Protective Insert - Wikipedia

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    Interceptor Body Armor vest with corresponding SAPI plate.. The Small Arms Protective Insert (SAPI) is a ceramic ballistic plate used by the United States Armed Forces.It was first used in the Ranger Body Armor and Interceptor Body Armor, both are ballistic vests.

  7. Modular Tactical Vest - Wikipedia

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    The Modular Tactical Vest (MTV or MoTaV) is a ballistic vest originally adopted by the United States Marine Corps in 2006. The MTV was designed as a solution to shortcomings in the Interceptor Body Armor (IBA) and was selected after a rigorous proposal and examination process by the Marine Corps.

  8. This B-2 Bomber Engineer Sold America's Stealth Secrets to China

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    In the early 1970s, the Defense and Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), a research wing of the U.S. Department of Defense, launched a program to figure out how to reduce aircraft radar ...

  9. Bulletproof vest - Wikipedia

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    The Improved Outer Tactical Vest (IOTV) in MultiCam, as issued to United States Army soldiers. A bulletproof vest, also known as a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, is a type of body armour designed to absorb impact and prevent the penetration of firearm projectiles and explosion fragments to the torso.