Article: Troops get boost to personal protection.

Article: Troops in Afghanistan to get better body armour
The Scotsman;  June 26, 2009 ;     446 words ... ... Afghanistan are to be issued with upgraded body armour and helmets. The Osprey Assault body armour and the enhanced Mark 7 helmets to be ... can never be complacent and the new Osprey Assault body armour and Mark 7 helmet offer an improvement ...

Article: Soldier killed in attack was waiting on his body ...
Belfast Telegraph;  November 18, 2009 ;     518 words ... ... still waiting" for promised new body armour and helmets. Rifleman Andrew ... are still waiting on these new body armour and helmets that were promised ... sets of new Mark 7 helmets and Osprey Assault body armour were being shipped to Afghanistan ...

Article: Troops killed in Afghan rocket attack wore 'wrong' body ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  July 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... comrade were wearing the wrong type of body armour when they died in an attack in Afghanistan ... they wore the older Enhanced Combat body armour. But the wounds they received when ... wound to the chest. Alan Hepper, a body armour expert, told the two-hour inquest ...

Article: Unforgivable, inexcusable; Coroner's verdict on MoD failures that ...
The Daily Mail (London, England);  December 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... decision to delay buying lifesaving body armour for UK soldiers in Iraq as ' unforgivable ... being ordered to hand over his vital body armour to another unit because of shortages ... official that they had delayed buying the body armour until it was too late for fear of revealing ...

Article: Police to adopt 'paramilitary' body armour
Scotland on Sunday;  December 19, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Scotland are to adopt flak- jacket style body armour, Scotland on Sunday can reveal. The ... offenders. All forces keep sets of body armour for dangerous situations but it is increasingly ... issued their front line officers with body armour. Lothian and Borders and Northern are ...

Article: This PC had shooting pains because her body armour ...
Evening Standard - London;  May 19, 1999 ;     688 words ... ... pain she suffered wearing protective body armour. WPc Jackie Smithies, 36, suffered ... pains in her breasts after wearing the body armour vests which are designed to fit under ... surgery because of the problems of wearing body armour. She had the operation last November ...

Article: MKU displays Instavest Body Armour and Boltfree ...
Asian News International;  September 5, 2009 ;     666 words ... ... protection are the helmet and the overvest or body armour. Some 45 per cent of battlefield injuries ... Likewise, comfortable, effective body armour, which gives all-round protection ... combat-effectiveness, such helmets and body armour must be both strong and light. The ...