Blast-Resistant Composite Panels for Composite Tactical Shelters

All deployed shelters are candidates for enemy targeting and a broad range of air and ground threats are expected. Threat weapons include a mixture of small arms, iron bombs, mortar and/or artillery fire, precision-guided munitions, and ground based and man portable surface-to-surface missiles. The current deployed shelters are vulnerable to many of these weapons systems. Next generation shelters will be constructed of composite materials to take advantage of the lower weight, longer life, and reduced maintenance afforded by advanced composites. The work SUNREZ has done with the US Army testing composite armoring technology in the field versus military ordnance puts SUNREZ in the forefront of developing and testing ballistic protection. SUNREZ has developed armoring technologies for the shelters that include both cladding and integrated methodology which provides a high level of protection. The advanced armoring technology that we are proposing will incorporate high performance composite laminates to protect against small arms fire as well as fragmentation weapons. It is feasible to develop ballistic protection for a family of composite shelters at reasonable cost and manageable weight.