The US military is developing “Xena: Warrior Princess”-style body armor for women that it hopes will give them greater protection on the battlefield, with more curves in the chest and hips. It is a ...

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Female soldiers from Fort Campbell deploying to Afghanistan will field test the first Army body armor that is shorter and better tailored specifically to fit women's physiques.

The U.S. Army recently acknowledged that men and women are not built the same. With women increasingly doing the same military jobs as men, the army decided it was time to redesign its female soldiers ...

Senior Airman Kiah Cook, 377th Security Forces Group defender, wears the new female body armor on Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Feb. 4. (Airman 1st Class Ireland Summers/Air Force) New body ...

We all know men and women are different. Women are biologically designed for birthing and nurturing children, so they have breasts and wider hips. Men are biologically designed to be strong and look ...

To put it bluntly, the problem boiled down to hips and breasts. In the past decade, as female U.S. troops were placed in de facto front-line roles in Iraq and Afghanistan, they were often encumbered ...

Female police officers have yearned for a vest that actually fits. In a male-dominated profession, most vests are cut first for men and then trimmed and tweaked to fit women, but not very well. From ...

Female soldiers in the U.S. Army have spent years fighting on modern battlefields with body armor designed for men. But the Army plans to change that poor-fitting scenario by field-testing new female ...

Melissa Block speaks with Lynne Hennessey, a designer with the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, about new body armor that has been developed to accommodate female ...

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