by David Crane
defrev at gmail dot com
"Central Valley News Station" KSEE 24 News has a video report on the federal investigation that is now underway due to the attempt to sell Pinnacle Armor Dragon Skin body armor on eBay by mystery sellers.
Click on the link below to watch the story:…
Dragon Skin: Ebay Investigation
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By Roger Charles
02-14-2008
While investigating offers on eBay for the sale of two Dragon Skin body armor vests, DefenseWatch discovered that a congressional staffer had confirmed that there is a DOJ IBA Task Force investigating the Army’s body armor procurement program.
What began as a rather routine inquiry into the commonplace sale of military equipment on [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
DefenseReview readers are well aware that we’ve been following the Pinnacle Armor Dragon Skin body armor vs. U.S. Army Interceptor Body Armor Program for quite some time, now. As you also know, the Pinnacle Armor vs. U.S. Army situation subsequently resulted in the Departiment of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
November 8, 2007
If DefenseReview is to believe what it’s been reading over the last few weeks in the "mainstream press", body armor and other types of ballistic armor (vehicle armor and bomb-resistant panels, for instance) utilizing carbon nanotubes (CNTs) may be upon us, soon. We’ll see. What we [...]
By Roger Charles
DefenseWatch
10-17-2007
UPDATE to following article: Two congressional sources report that the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (on the staff of the Secretary of Defense) caught the Army’s attempted exemption of current Interceptor vendors from independent testing, as allowed in the original solicitation. Under pressure from DOT&E, in August the Army issued a modification [...]
by Roger Charles
DefenseWatch
October 15, 2007
When NBC News had a German lab conduct side-by-side, comparative tests of Pinnacle Armor’s Dragon Skin and the Army’s Interceptor Body Armor System on May 3 earlier this year, the real surprise was how well the Interceptor ESAPI (Level IV) plates performed.
Yes, that’s right. The Army acquisition mafia "got lucky" in [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
As if mines/IEDs, EFPs and RPGs aren’t enough, now there’s armor-piercing grenades a.k.a. armor-penetrating grenades. According to a recent CBS News article, this is the latest lethal threat (explosives threat) to U.S. troops in Iraq. The grenades, being employed/deployed by Al Qaeda forces (specifically they’re self-named "Thermal Brigade" force), [...]
by Roger Charles
August 30, 2007
United
States Test Laboratory in Wichita, Kansas, last week (August 20) tested
nine separate, serialized Dragon Skin SOV-2000 (Level III) ballistic
body armor panels that varied in age from 5 years-9 & 1/2 months to
6 years-8 months. The purpose of this test was to validate Pinnacle
Armor’s six-year warranty for Dragon Skin products.
All
Dragon Skin [...]
By Roger Charles
August 30, 2007 (originally published on August 17, 2007)
The
Department of Justice (DOJ) has now joined the Army acquisition mafia
in attempting to deny America’s Grunts an honest chance for determining
just what is the "best-available" body armor. In a flagrant abuse of
discretionary authority, the DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs has
intervened in an unprecedented way to [...]
by David Crane
defrev at gmail.com
August 1, 2007
Soldiers For The Truth (SFTT) is reporting about an independent test conducted on July 11, 2007 by Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) on two Pinnacle Armor Dragon Skin SOV-3000 Level IV body armor panels. As it turns out, the ATC obtained very different results from the U.S. Army’s First [...]
