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Article: ATI rolls out tougher armor for troops, equipment
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- June 17, 2008
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Allegheny Technologies Inc. announced Monday that it has
developed a hardened steel armor that will do a better job of
protecting military personnel and their equipment from armor-
piercing rounds and explosions.
It is the first high-hardened steel armor developed in the United
States since the Vietnam War, according to the Downtown-based
company. It uses steel melted at the company's Allegheny Ludlum mill
in Brackenridge that is rolled at its plant in Washington County,
said spokesman Dan Greenfield.
The armor is being introduced this week at the Eurosatory defense
industry trade show outside Paris.
"The market introduction of ATI 500-MIL armor steel comes at a
time when demand for ...