The way the scale armor works is that when in contact with a force, the scales converge inward upon one another to form a solid barrier. When not under force, they can 'move' on top of one another to ...

Researchers from the Jiangxi Provincial Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research Institute in China have recovered the remains of a complex scale armor recovered from an over 2,000-year-old Han ...

[Will Cogley]’s mechanized gauntlet concept sure has a hypnotizing look to it, and it uses only a single motor. Underneath the scales is a rod with several cams, each of which moves a lever up and ...

Every tomb has a moment when the earth stops hiding what it guarded. At Jiangxi’s Haihunhou site, that moment arrived when conservators brushed aside the last packed layers of soil, and metal began to ...

As the U.S. Army continues its transition back to large-scale combat operations, it must also place emphasis on reserve operations, which will be critical in high-intensity, high-casualty fights ...