Second Printing. — San Jose: R. James Bender Publishing, 1993. — 448 p. — ISBN: 0-912138-31-9 Table book collector of German helmets. A large number of color and black-and-white photos.
Natick: Clothing and Personal Life Support Equipment Laboratory U. S. Army Natick Laboratories, 1969. — 27 p. Body armor which protecta Army aircrews of low-flying aircraft against 7.62 mm/caliber .30 AP small arms ground fire has been developed by the U. S. Army Natick Laboratories. The armor utilizes a relatively lightweight composite of ceramic b Lnded to fiberglass....
London: Yale University Press, 1920. — 325 p. Helmets and body armor are usually considered as objects beautiful, rather than useful. They are exhibited in museums, in halls hung with tapestries, beside faience, ivories and enamels of olden times. Some of them were designed by artists whose names are highest of all in the history of art,—Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, Holbein,...
Arlington: Department of Defense Inspector General, Army Navy Drive, 2009. — 57 p. Objectives. The overall objective of our audit was to evaluate ballistic testing requirements for body armor components. We specifically reviewed whether the Enhanced Small Arms Protective Inserts (ESAPI) first article testing criteria for Army contract W91CRB-04-D-0040 (Contract 0040) were in...
Washington: Department of Justice, 1973. — 48 p. The report outlines the methodology of and summarizes a portion of the data from the LEAA Police Equipment Survey of 1972. One of a series of seven reports resulting from this nationwide mail survey of a stratified random sample of police departments, the present report summarizes the answers of 440 police departments concerning...
Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2015. — 12 p. Firearms are one of the leading causes of deaths for law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty. According to data published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), approximately 93% of the 511 non-federal law enforcement officers feloniously killed in the line of duty between 2004 and 2013...
Fort Detrick: US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, 2007. — 33 p. Kevlar helmets provide the soldier with basic ballistic and impact protection. However, the helmet has recently become a mounting platform for devices such as night-vision goggles, drop down displays, weapon-aiming systems, etc. Although designed to enhance soldier performance, these systems increase the...
Fort Rucker: U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, 1990. — 8 p. Operational paratrooper head injuries increased 2-fold relative to other body region injuries from 1985 to 1990. This trend concerned the leaders of the U.S. Army paratrooper community, primarily XVIII Airborne Corps and U.S. Army Infantry School, who directed development of head protective measures without...
Fort Rucker: U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, 2005. — 32 p. Protective helmets are typically required to absorb energy in order to reduce head injury risk during blunt impact events. The energy-absorbing mechanism must be robust enough to reduce the impact energy to a low-injury probability level throughout a realistic range of impact velocities and environmental...
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