MKU - Vehicle Ballistic-Protective Armour

MKU, the flagship company of the GKG Group, is the leading Indian manufacturer of defence protection systems, including:

• Composite ballistic panels
• Vehicle protection ballistics
• Personal protection
• Helmets
• Ballistic jackets
• Up-armour inserts / plates
• De-mining suits
• Bomb blankets
• UAVS
• Canvas and rubber footwear
• Tents

CUSTOMISED VEHICLE BALLISTIC PROTECTION

MKU has the knowledge, expertise and experience of working with almost all kinds of ballistic raw-materials and technologies available in the world today. This puts MKU in a position to customise vehicle ballistic protection solutions for every conceivable ballistic threat from all kinds of modern weapons and ammunition.

LIGHTWEIGHT VEHICLE ARMOUR

Traditional steel armour for vehicles provided the protection but seriously compromised on the vehicle's manoeuvrability and performance. Land, sea and air-based vehicles of today therefore use lightweight vehicle armouring solutions.

For any armour system to be efficient and effective, its ballistic protection capabilities and performance must complement flexibility in design, durability and ease of installation. MKU therefore manufactures panels in a variety of configurations using various composite materials like aramid, polyethylene (PE), ceramics, etc., either alone or in combination.

SOFT AND HARD ARMOUR PROCESSING

MKU is one of the very few companies in the world which have knowledge and in-house capabilities to process both soft and hard armour under one roof. It has state-of-the-art facilities such as:

• In-house design centre for all kinds of protection needs
• Multi-daylight presses in various sizes including the large 1.2m x 2.4m (4ft x 8ft) press
• High-quality, precision cutters for cutting various profiles and shapes

Our range of soft and hard armour panels includes:

• Aramid panels: flexible (ballistic blankets), semi-rigid (rubberised) and rigid
• Polyethylene panels
• Ceramic composite panels
• Advanced ceramic composite panels
• Steel ceramic composite panels
• Steel composite panels
• Fibreglass panels

At MKU, stringent quality control systems are in place to ensure reliable performance of each of its products. All MKU manufacturing units are ISO 9001:2000 compliant, and from the raw materials to the finished products, each component has a unique identification number for complete traceability.

Continuous in-house testing is complemented by ballistic testing by world-renowned laboratories.

MKU's lightweight armour panels are customisable solutions which:

• Can be formed and cut to any shape as per contours
• Are suitable for all types of military and paramilitary applications
• Can be supplied as appliqué upgrades, structural panels or internal spall liners

MULTIPURPOSE VEHICLE BALLISTIC ARMOUR

Due to the vast number of bullets and calibres existing today, and more being developed constantly, the number of conceivable threats is endless.

Though offering absolute protection against all threats is a landmark MKU aspires to achieve, its vehicle armour panels conform to a variety of well-defined international threat levels. Since the threats vary significantly with geographic locations, these threat levels show country-wise modifications.

MKU constantly keeps itself aware of all major new ammunitions being developed and also of all minor and major modifications or upgrades to these international threat levels.

• Handgun ammunition
• Assault rifles (ball ammunitions)
• Small arms (armour piercing ammunition)
• Fragments
• Heavy machine-gun and cannons

Protection against high-performing heavy machine-gun and cannon ammunition (such as 12.7mm and 14.5mm) requires ingenuous armour solutions. MKU has developed solutions by combining various ballistic materials such as ceramics, PE, aramid and steel for optimal protection. These armour panels are also resistant to environmental degradation and incidental damage.