Marshall Specialist Vehicles - Protective Shelters

Modern conflict requires workspaces and logistic areas including hospitals and medical systems that are protected against EMP, EMC, EMI, IEDs and CBRN as well as blast, fragments and bullets and environmental and climatic challenges. MSV military and security vehicles and protective shelters cover three primary areas - protected workspace, mainly integrated vehicle and ground based shelters, protected logistics, mainly specialist vehicles and load beds, and capability development, such as consulting, robotics, UORs, UGVs, UAVs and EOD.

MSV's shelters always include CBRN and are used to protect people, infrastructure, C3I, satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), ground control stations, and medical systems including hospitals. MSV's unique expanding MATRIX™ shelter allows rapid construction of large air transportable infrastructure systems based on ISO 20ft footprints.

Shelters as protected integrated workspaces

MSV supplies shelters as single and single or double expandable variants of its MATRIX shelters or as standard steel ISO containers. Recently three fully transportable self contained shelter-based field hospitals consisting of CBRN, EMP, EMC and EMI protected MATRIX™ and steel ISO shelters were delivered to Norway. A fully deployable and similarly protected HQ based on MATRIX™ shelters has just been delivered to FMV Sweden. Both projects featured a high degree of systems integration and innovative solutions.

Shelter-based ground control station shelters have included Watchkeeper UAV and ASTOR programmes for the UK MoD and the BAE Systems Herti UAV. Similar vehicle based ground control station shelters include those for Watchkeeper and ASTOR. These too featured high levels of innovative integrated solutions to difficult problems.

Shelter transportation and deployment

All MSV ground deployable shelters are based on ISO 20ft footprints and are CSC plated making them suitable for transportation by sea, land or air. Similarly all MSV shelters have inbuilt forklift pockets and DROPS / palletized load handling systems, enabling them to be rapidly deployed from or reloaded onto transport systems.

MSV expandable shelters have simple to operate with automatic, powered shelter expansion systems and in-built leveling jacks. This enables the shelters to be deployed from a transport system and brought into operation in approximately 90 seconds.

Shelter capability and characteristics

A feature of MSV shelters is their extensive usable internal wall space. This is achieved by the basic design of the shelter expansion system. Integral power sources and climatic conditioning systems make MSV’s shelter systems ideal for medical and C3I systems.

Typically MSV Shelters maintain an internal noise level of less than 65dB even with integral generators and attain RFI screening levels of 80dB. Coupled with high levels of thermal protection to maintain internal temperatures of between 16-25°C (61-77°F) MSV shelters are also capable of full humidity control depending on individual shelter use within a shelter complex.

Armour to differing standards can be applied as required provided a weight penalty can be accepted. Alternatively appliqué armour can be fitted to protect shelters whilst being transported. All MSV shelters are constructed to the appropriate Mil Stds, DEF CONS or STANAGS.

About Marshall Specialist Vehicles

Marshall Specialist Vehicles (MSV), part of the Marshall Group - a large privately owned company - is based in Cambridge, UK. Marshall Specialist Vehicles is primarily focused on design, manufacture and engineering of Military Land Systems. Vehicle and shelter systems expertise is complemented by protection, testing, EOD, consultancy, medical systems and by UGV and UAV unattended vehicle capabilities.