UK Police ‘soft’ body armor is designed to provide protection from sharp-weapons and low-velocity pistol ammunition; if ‘hard’ armor plates are fitted then high-velocity rifle protection is provided. Several different levels of protection for both soft and hard armor are available and these are tailored to the individual police officers’ role. The level of protection offered by these types of armor from fragmentation threats is not known as fragmentation is not typically considered a threat to UK Police Officers. However, fragmentation from devices such as grenades may be a threat to certain specialized units and during terrorist incidents. In this work, neither the soft nor hard UK Police body armor (HG2 and RF1 respectively) investigated ...
Within the Police service of England and Wales the wearing of ballistic and stab resistant body armo...
The human toll from antipersonnel (AP) mines is large. To decrease the human toll from demining, pro...
There has been a tremendous improvement in the design of ballistic protective materials, which have ...
Police officers and other personnel in the UK routinely wear body armour that provides protection fr...
Assaults on the Police continue to increase. Of particular concern is the threat of injury from edge...
Personal protective equipment (PPE) in mine action typically consists of a polycarbonate visor that ...
Body armour is worn to lessen the likelihood of sustaining a life threatening injury. Such protectiv...
A qualitative description of the personal armour design system is elicited by comparing armour throu...
INTRODUCTION Edged weapons are a known domestic threat to the police forces of the UK. This threa...
Each time choosing material for the needs of Armed forces the choice of concrete technical parameter...
Modern lightweight stab-resistant body armour has been developed in response to the operational requ...
Loading of vehicle undercarriages from the detonation of shallow-buried explosives remains a serious...
Sufficient ballistic protection of the neck area would significantly reduce the vulnerability of an ...
The paper characterises methods of defence for use against weapons of mass destruction, as a form of...
The wearing of body amour has become a necessity for many professions and much work has gone into t...
Within the Police service of England and Wales the wearing of ballistic and stab resistant body armo...
The human toll from antipersonnel (AP) mines is large. To decrease the human toll from demining, pro...
There has been a tremendous improvement in the design of ballistic protective materials, which have ...
Police officers and other personnel in the UK routinely wear body armour that provides protection fr...
Assaults on the Police continue to increase. Of particular concern is the threat of injury from edge...
Personal protective equipment (PPE) in mine action typically consists of a polycarbonate visor that ...
Body armour is worn to lessen the likelihood of sustaining a life threatening injury. Such protectiv...
A qualitative description of the personal armour design system is elicited by comparing armour throu...
INTRODUCTION Edged weapons are a known domestic threat to the police forces of the UK. This threa...
Each time choosing material for the needs of Armed forces the choice of concrete technical parameter...
Modern lightweight stab-resistant body armour has been developed in response to the operational requ...
Loading of vehicle undercarriages from the detonation of shallow-buried explosives remains a serious...
Sufficient ballistic protection of the neck area would significantly reduce the vulnerability of an ...
The paper characterises methods of defence for use against weapons of mass destruction, as a form of...
The wearing of body amour has become a necessity for many professions and much work has gone into t...
Within the Police service of England and Wales the wearing of ballistic and stab resistant body armo...
The human toll from antipersonnel (AP) mines is large. To decrease the human toll from demining, pro...
There has been a tremendous improvement in the design of ballistic protective materials, which have ...