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Don't Be Taken In by Dragon Skin Armor, Says Army TheCelebrityCafe.com, NY - 11 hours ago The Army is warning families of soldiers not to be taken in by Dragon Skin armor, saying that the privately-sold flexible body armor failed to perform in ... Soldiers' Armor Best in the World, General Says PressZoom (press release) Army says Dragon Skin armor falls short Ottawa Recorder all 167 news articles

Soldiers' Armor Best in the World, General Says Nanotechnology News (press release) - 19 minutes ago In Army testing conducted May 16 to 19, 2006, the Dragon Skin armor "failed catastrophically," Brown said. The armor sustained "13 out of 48 complete ...

Polyethylene Bulletproof Vests Better Than Kevlar Slashdot - 5 hours ago Or you could just get some Dragon Skin armor that will take the force of an exploding hand grenade and not allow penetration. ... Polyethylene Bulletproof Vests Better Than Kevlar Slashdot all 2 news articles

Army Refutes Dragon Skin Claims ISX-Data.com - May 19, 2007 The war between Pinnacle Armor and the Army went nuclear this week as NBC News claimed that Pinnacle's innovative "Dragon Skin" armor is far superior to the ...

Are US soldiers wearing the best body armor? MSNBC - May 20, 2007 But an NBC investigation suggests there may be something even better out there called Dragon Skin, a flexible body armor of interconnected ceramic discs. ...

TV report questions Army ban on Dragon Skin ArmyTimes.com, VA - May 18, 2007 A recent media report has re-ignited a long-simmering feud over the Army's refusal to allow soldiers to wear a controversial body armor known as Dragon Skin ...

Chart of the Day: Ceradyne TheStreet.com - 10 hours ago Ultimately, I found the likely culprit: a news clip on NBC's Dateline previewing a Sunday night feature on Dragon Skin body armor, manufactured by Pinnacle ...

Supreme Court rings up victory for phone firms Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN - May 22, 2007 Pieces of the hefty Dragon Skin armor, with ragged holes torn through its yellow inner skin, were propped up on the floor in the Pentagon, as Army officials ...

Local veteran, Marine agree troops need best protection KRIS-TV, TX - May 19, 2007 It's a flexible system of interconnected scales that offer more and better protection to the torso, but the army rejected the "Dragon Skin" armor, ...

Soldiers for the Truth Foundation Exposes Second-Rate Body Armor ... Epicos.com (press release), Switzerland - May 18, 2007 Dragon Skin body armor is an innovative system of two-inch titanium-ceramic composite discs overlaid in a fish-scale or chain-mail pattern invented ...

Army To Address Dragon Skin Armor
The Army plans to brief Congress about test failures of Dragon Skin body armor after recent news reports touting the vest's capabilities prompted calls from lawmakers for an official explanation. The service's top soldier equipment ...

Coyle Speaks On Dragon Skin Controversy; Senators Want New Testing
Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former chief tester and a consultant in the NBC News investigation into Dragon Skin body armor, says he's not convinced by the Army's defense of its Interceptor system over the past few days. ...

Dragon Skin body armor, not the panacea claimed?
In response to a May 17 NBC News report challenging the Army's use of Interceptor body armor vs. the newer "Dragon Skin" armor developed by Pinnacle Armor Inc., Brown today released information about the testing that ruled out Dragon ...

Don't Be Taken In by Dragon Skin Armor, Says Army
Supposedly superior armor fails testing, according to released report.

Playing Politics Over Body Armor
What was probably the most damning information left out of the NBC report was that the Dragon Skin body armor weighs 47.5 pounds compared to the Interceptor armor that weighs 28 pounds. How could NBC News leave such critical information ...

Dragon Skin redux
Strangely, in their investigative reporting seeking to prove the superiority of the Dragon Skin armor over Interceptor with ESAPI, NBC did not appear to use actual ESAPI and ESBI plates for the comparison. Instead, they seem to have ...

US Military- Best Armor in the World
In Army testing conducted May 16 to 19, 2006, the Dragon Skin armor "failed catastrophically," Brown said. The armor sustained "13 out of 48 complete penetrations under a variety of conditions," Brown explained. ...

Yet more truth about Dragon Skin
Holding up an armor-piercing bullet, Brown showed video of the tests, including footage of officials peering into the bullet hole in the Dragon Skin armor. "At the end of the day, this one disc has to stop this round. It didn't. ...

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Transitioning now to a Jamie McIntyre piece on Dragon Skin armor. Right now our troops are using Interceptor armor, but there are charges that Dragon Skin, which is banned by the army, is better. The popular phrase in this piece is "the ...

Army says Dragon Skin armor falls short
Pieces of the hefty Dragon Skin armor, with ragged holes torn through its yellow inner skin, were propped up on the floor in the Pentagon, as Army officials systematically detailed the battery of ammunition and temperature testing the ...

McCain and Levin Step In
The letter asks Gates to take the Dragon Skin testing up a notch, requesting that his research and engineering guru, John Young, hold his own tests to determine the "facts regarding the protective qualities of the body armor we are ...

Two Words: Body Armor
Four years into Iraq, five years into Afghanistan, we might get a GAO investigation of the body armor fiasco. How long will it take for the GAO to determine the Dragon Skin body armor is better? Then, how long will it take for Congress ...

Army responds to Dragon Skin report
The Pentagon held a briefing Monday in response to a story first aired last week by NBC News about military body armor. NBC's report suggested an armored vest called Dragon Skin might provide better protection than the body armor the ...

Dragon Skin vs. Army
The war between Pinnacle Armor and the Army went nuclear this week as NBC News claimed that Pinnacle's innovative "Dragon Skin" armor is far superior to the vest the Army currently issues to soldiers. The report shows test conducted by ...

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