Piaggio Shelters - Production and Maintenance of Military Shelters

Thanks to the experience and skills of its employees, Piaggio Shelters is a world leader in the production and maintenance of shelters for the military and civil sectors. Piaggio Shelters was established in 2006 as a business unit of Piaggio Aero Industries of Genoa.

Shelters protecting against electromagnetic/ballistic disturbances and nuclear blasts

Piaggio has constructed more than 3,500 shelters around the world. Its initial shelters were for civil uses, and its clients included Marconi. Then following a large production order from the Italia Army Piaggio began to produce EMP shelters, which protect personnel against electromagnetic/ballistic disturbances and nuclear blasts in the atmosphere.

Shelters for telecommunications and military hospitals

As Piaggio's skills developed its range of shelters grew, and since the 1990s shelters have included units for use as radio and television link stations, and as military surgical shelters and hospitals.

Protective shelters for military personnel and equipment

Piaggio's shelters are particularly sophisticated mobile cabins, similar to containers, and are adaptable to every climate. They can be made resistant to both nuclear and ballistic collisions and contaminations. Completely watertight, they are designed to be used in any environment by personnel in order to house valuable electronic equipment, telecommunications apparatus, sanitary and surgical equipment, geotechnical and geological instruments, etc.

All standard military shelters from Piaggio contain:

• Access door
• Padlock with keys
• Emergency door-unlocking device
• Key container
• Rain gutter over door
• Under-floor skids for shelter towing
• Grounding points on a vertical angle
• Folding step on a vertical angle for reaching the roof
• Reinforcement at the roof's centre for protection
• Devices to hold the door open
• Drain hole
• Anti-skid and electrically insulated carpet

The main advantages of all standard shelters from Piaggio are easy transportation due to small dimensions and low weight; all-weather construction; and insulated walls to prevent heat loss and noise penetration.

Electro-magnetic shielded shelters

Piaggio provides shelters with effective shielding against electro-magnetic waves (RFI-shielded) or electro-magnetic pulses (EMP-protected or EMP).

Bulletproof armour plating for shelters

When it becomes necessary to transfer a shelter to the battlefield or use it in an anti-terrorist mission, it is essential the shelter is protected against blasts from splinters and bullets.

Piaggio produces mobile, bulletproof armour plating for its shelters which can be used to protect a shelter against ballistic blasts. Thanks to the fixing points provided on all Piaggio shelters, the armour plating can be installed in less then 8h.

Nuclear-hardened shelters

Endo-atmospheric nuclear blasts can endanger electronic equipment housed in a shelter by overpressure and thermal waves. Piaggio's nuclear-hardened shelters protect against this eventuality, by containing the elastic deformations caused by overpressure in order to protect internal equipment.

Defence, aeronautics, energy and environmental shelters' development

Piaggio also collaborates with Italian and international universities to carry out research into new shelters for the defence, aeronautics, energy and environmental sectors.