Shining armour

摘要

Increasingly high levels of scientific innovation are being applied to the age old problem of mobility versus combat survivability. Professor Bryn James, Head of the Armour and Protection Science Centre at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), says its remit is a broad one: "What the group does is research into physical protection for all applications including ground, sea, air, and fortified buildings. What we want to do is make armour better, as in lighter, thinner, cheaper, so it is more useable."