Armor Solutions
TDS Advanced Armor Solutions- Our advanced armor solutions combine Composites, Metals, and Ballistic Glass to meet all threat levels for maritime, vehicle, aviation, and building construction. Our team designs, engineers, and installs each armor system to meet customer specified threat levels, weight restrictions or special requirements.
Armor Products and Services:
- Lightweight Composites, Ceramics, Steel , Aluminum, other metals
- Clear Armor
- Permanent, Semi Permanent, and Removable Designs
- Design Specific to meet threat level and weight requirements
NIJ Standard
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The purpose of this standard is to establish minimum performance requirements and methods of test for ballistic resistant protective materials. This standard supersedes NIJ Standard-0108.00, Ballistic Resistant Protective Materials, dated December 1981. This revision adds threat level III-A and establishes threat level classifications that are consistent with other NIJ standards for ballistic protection. This standard is applicable to all ballistic resistant materials (armor) intended to provide protection against gunfire, with the exception of police body armor and ballistic helmets, which are the topic of individual NIJ performance standards [1,2]1. Many different types of armor are now available that range in ballistic resistance from those designed to protect against small-caliber handguns to those designed to protect against high-powered rifles. Ballistic resistant materials are used to fabricate portable ballistic shields, such as a ballistic clipboard for use by a police officer; to provide ballistic protection for fixed structures such as critical control rooms or guard stations; and to provide ballistic protection for the occupants of vehicles. The ballistic resistant materials used to fabricate armor include metals, ceramics, transparent glazing, fabric, and fabric-reinforced plastics; they are used separately or in combination, depending upon the intended threat protection.
MIL-STD-662F - V50 BALLISTIC TEST FOR ARMOR
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The purpose of this standard is to provide general guidelines for procedures, equipment, physical conditions, and terminology for determining the ballistic resistance of metallic, nonmetallic and composite armor against small arms projectiles. The ballistic test procedure described in this standard determines the V50 ballistic limit of armor. 1.2 Application. This test method standard is intended for use in ballistic acceptance testing of armor and for the research and development of new armor materials. This ballistic test method is applicable to the following types of armor:
- Body armor
- Armored seats for aircraft and ground vehicles
- Crew station armor for military aircraft
- Transparent armor, such as windows, windshields and vision blocks for aircraft and ground vehicles
- Bulkhead armor for shipboard use
- Structural or integral armor for use on ship exteriors
- Armor for military tactical shelters (AFWAL-TR-82-4163)
- Visors for eye and face protection
- Armor for potential space applications
- Armor for light and heavy combat vehicles and structures
PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This AEP describes the system qualification and acceptance procedure for determining the Protection Level of logistic and light armoured vehicles (LAV) for KE and artillery threats. The threats to be considered are small and medium caliber kinetic energy (KE) ballistic projectiles and fragment simulating penetrators (FSP) representing artillery shell fragments, as defined in STANAG 4569 Annex A (summarized in Annex A of the AEP-55). This process includes standard techniques and reproducible test procedures for evaluating the ballistic resistance of vehicle armour components (integral, dd-on, opaque and transparent) as well as the required vehicle Vulnerable Area assessment
National Institute of Justice - Ballistic Resistant Protective Materials
