American troops face going into battle in Iraq in defective biological warfare suits - and even those are already in short supply. The suits sometimes leak because of faulty air filters, according ...

Existing chemical and biological warfare suits are difficult to wear and lack some protective features. The Pentagon’s research arm wants a better suit for those responding to chemical and ...

The Defense Department wants to develop a new suit to shield troops from chemical and biological warfare agents -- and plans to offer cash to those who come up with winning designs. The Pentagon's ...

A lack of interoperability among inventory management systems has made it impossible for the Defense Department to guarantee the availability and effectiveness of chemical and biological warfare ...

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has lost track of up to 250,000 defective chemical warfare suits, a congressional audit found Tuesday, prompting concerns among lawmakers that the military was playing ...

Is the bulletproof vest’s era passing, replaced by a fresh generation of shrapnel-proof fabrics designed for drone-saturated ...

Advances in biological research likely will permit development of a new class of advanced biological warfare (ABW) agents engineered to elicit novel effects. In addition, biotechnology will have ...

The MK4 nuclear biological and chemical warfare suit and S10 respirator will be standard Ministry of Defence issue to British troops in the Gulf.

Although Americans have speculated on the issues of large-scale war and terrorism in the past, these issues have now become reality. One issue, the development of biological warfare, is banned by ...

Modern warfare isn’t just fought with steel and silicon. Increasingly, it’s being shaped by something deceptively simple — ...

The MK4 nuclear biological and chemical (NBC) warfare suit and S10 respirator are standard Ministry of Defence issue to soldiers engaged in action against Iraq.