In the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, one of the casualties was the anti-terrorist squad chief Hemant Karkare. He was said to be wearing a ‘bullet-proof’ jacket and yet the bullet pierced through. That speaks volumes of the importance of the ‘right’ kind of equipment. At Defexpo India 2012, US-based Ceradyne Armor Systems claimed to have a 100 per cent fail-safe body armour plates. Marc A. King, President of Ceradyne, proudly proclaims “not one of the US Army or Marine Corps wearing a Ceradyne body armour plate has lost his life either in Afghanistan or Iraq. There has never been a failure.”