Bomb-Resistant Boxers to Be Manufactured by New York Company

Designed to protect against improvised explosive devices in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, Blast Boxers have been available in Europe for about six months by British manufacturer BCB International Ltd. They will soon be availiable in the U.S., company officials say. (BCB International)

(By Joshua Rhett Miller, FoxNews.com) - Brace yourself: Blast Boxers are coming to America.

Designed to protect against improvised explosive devices, Blast Boxers have been available in Europe for about six months by British manufacturer BCB International Ltd. But now the protective shorts made of Kevlar fabric that purportedly protect soldiers in areas where standard body armor does not will be manufactured in upstate New York within three weeks.

"We are creating a product here for the U.S. military; everything will be made and manufactured in the United States," BCB's Edward Schmitt told FoxNews.com Wednesday. "We're hoping to have them available by the middle of March."