Tailorable Packaging System for Optimized Protection in LCS Mission Modules

KaZaK Composites proposes a modular packaging system to protect energetic materials carried inside LCS mission modules. A readily tailorable set of standardized protective panels, in combination with an integrated system for securing items inside mission modules, will allow minimum cost/weight protective solutions to be rapidly designed and implemented. A layered approach will allow individual dangerous packages to be optimally protected against detonation from external blast effects, projectiles, fragmentation, spallation, fire and RF energy. In addition, internal modular packaging will prevent adjacent energetics from sympathetic detonation should one item in the mission module ignite or detonate. This system will allow LCS ISO mission modules to be handled as if their contents were inert. KaZaK is uniquely qualified to address this topic, having extensive experience in energy-absorbing materials, protection against blast, thermal effects, ballistic penetration, modular munitions packaging, containerization, design of lightweight military ISO containers, packaging systems for military shipment, and design for low-cost automated composite production. To minimize risk and production cost, designs will be based on proprietary technologies already proven in similar applications. Proposed hardware will be produced by pultrusion, a KaZaK specialty and the least expensive way to make constant section composite parts.