More than 10, 000 enhanced Mark 7 helmets and the new Osprey Assault body armour have been ordered.
They are wearing full body armour and form orderly lines as they spread out across the area.
Second, American body armour and battlefield medicine are now so good that some 90% of wounded soldiers survive.
Fusilier Gentle was wearing appropriate body armour but this could not protect him from a close quarter explosion.
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It was the fatal stabbing of another London police officer, in 1985, that led to the development of body armour.
Clad, like her, in protective visors and body armour we watch her tackle eight mines strewn around an outside toilet.
They are playing a friendly football match with soldiers from the Afghan Army, body armour off and weapons laid down.
The foreign secretary added that body armour would be provided for civilians who were involved in the protection of others.
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That suggests the Taliban are eschewing firefights, when body armour often saves soldiers' lives, in favour of lethal terrorist attacks.
In the United States, it has been estimated that the lives of 2, 500 police officers have been saved by body armour.
We are also targeting the tools of gang crime by banning armoured vehicles and body armour and seizing gangsters' houses and cars.
And in a separate development, Britain said it would provide armoured vehicles and body armour to opposition forces in Syria "to help save lives".
The shot was fired out of the open accommodation tent and hit Ranger Dalzell, who was not wearing any body armour, in the chest.
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Mike Ellicock was blown up on a special forces operation to save UK hostages in Sierra Leone, only surviving because he was wearing body armour.
She has made items from sculpture to body armour and is even looking at buildings, erected with computer-guided nozzles that deposit successive layers of concrete.
They threw their body armour on and were away within minutes.
The MoD says the new body armour has "all the stopping power of the kit it is replacing, but is lighter, closer fitting and easier to move in".
He has spoken of his concern that, far from wanting to be armed, neighbourhood constables might consider whether the body armour they routinely wear risks setting them apart.
He added that his own body armour, rifle and other equipment, plus those of his colleague, brought the total weight he was asked to carry up to 350lbs.
Glasgow company Sarkar Defence Solutions Ltd, whose principal products include body armour, ballistic vests, helmets and tactical clothing, was among 10 Scottish firms to win an award for international trade.
"Luckily, we had decided that we were going to wear body armour and helmets because we were going in at first light and it was still quite cool, " he said.
If these tests are successful, liquid armour could furnish soldiers with protective clothing that is more comfortable and less cumbersome than existing body armour, and provides them with greater protection.
Asked after the inquest about Mrs Gray's concerns over the body armour, Captain Ian Robinson said the battalion were the "best protected soldiers in the British Army" when deployed to Afghanistan.
Rather than going on new high-tech aircraft and ships, the money will be spent keeping Russia's nuclear arsenal safe and usable, and upgrading basic infantry kit such as radios and body armour.
Additionally, it noted that more effective body armour has contributed to "a considerable weight for soldiers to carry whilst on foot patrol, making it challenging to move quickly and freely while under fire".
Britain has stepped up support to the opposition, providing armoured vehicles and body armour as well as communications supplies, and said the EU arms embargo may need to be lifted to help opposition forces.
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George Bush defended Donald Rumsfeld against mounting criticism from within the Republican Party both over a lack of body armour for troops in Iraq and his use of a machine to sign letters of condolence.
In recent tests at the company's Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol, a special liquid has been used to construct a material that is thinner than normal body armour and yet is able to stop a low-velocity bullet.
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