Fy-Composites - Ballistic-Protective Armour

FY-Composites is a high-technology company specialised in development, design and manufacturing of composite-based products for ballistic protection. Lightweight armouring solutions are designed and manufactured to provide personnel, vehicles, ships, special equipment, buildings and other structures with maximum protection.

Advanced analysis methods and design tools, combined with thorough understanding of various composite materials, are essential in developing cost-effective and technically advanced composite products. Most successful solutions are developed and designed in close co-operation with our customers for their demanding requirements.

RAPID ARMOR SHELTER SYSTEM

The Rapid Armor Shelter System (RASS), which has an international patent pending, is a new ballistic-protection system. A military-certified lightweight fortification wall system, it is ideal for fast-moving troops: fortification walls can be built and dismantled in a few minutes, allowing troops to be protected even during short operations.

Panels protect men or property from fragments; the protection level is V50 > 600m/s (1.1g FSP and STANAG 2920). The multi-panel system can be used in protection against rifle AP-bullets.

LIGHTWEIGHT BALLISTIC PROTECTION

The RASS is simple and easy to use. Two basic shapes, a square (approximately 18kg) and a triangle (approximately 8kg), are equipped with innovative quick coupling devices and supporting legs to enable the construction of a large number of various fortification combinations in a very short time.

All components are capable of withstanding UV radiation, fuel and oil spatters, and a wide range of temperatures. The panels do not absorb moisture.

MILITARY AND CIVIL BALLISTIC PROTECTION

This multipurpose protection system is easy to adapt for various military, police and peacekeeping applications, e.g. military-operation protection, mine-clearing activities, military or police sieges, UN personnel and property protection, and humanitarian-organisation protection. The RASS can also be used for civilian protection, e.g. protection of window and door openings.

VEHICLE-PROTECTIVE BALLISTIC PANELS

When attached to the sides of a vehicle during transportation, panels protect persons and property inside the vehicle.

LIGHTWEIGHT ARMORED STRUCTURE SOLUTION

In most common vehicle applications, ballistic protection is provided by specially designed steel structures. To be effective, however, these have to be very thick, something that also makes them very heavy. Steel also needs an additional protective layer, or spall liner, to stop the secondary fragments released by the impact of a projectile on a hard steel surface, further increasing the total weight.

FY-Composites recently launched the new Lightweight Armored Structure Solution (LASS) technology, which sidesteps these problems by using modern composite technology. Structural stiffness and strength in a LASS design is provided by a composite sandwich structure that is both light and strong enough to deal with high dimensioning and operational loads.

Ballistic protection is integrated into a structure using protective layers, which break and stop projectiles. This ballistic protection also acts as part of the load-bearing structure.

LASS material usage is highly optimised and weight kept to a minimum, resulting in very light structures with a high level of protection.

CUSTOMISED BALLISTIC PROTECTION

The patent-pending LASS system can be closely tailored to suit customer requirements, in terms of both structure and ballistic protection. NATO Stanag 4569 annex A level three protection, for example, can be achieved with an all-up weight of 75kg/m² (well under half of the 200kg/m² needed by a steel structure). Level two protection requires half of the 100kg/m² required by steel.

This is a particular benefit with door and hatches, which can be much easier to open and close because of their lower weight, and can also be designed in a wider variety of shapes and other configurations.

The same design flexibility applies to other parts. Simpler hinges, latches, and other add-ons can be prefabricated into the structure, allowing normal bolted or screwed fittings to be used.

NBC / CRBRN VEHICLE PROTECTION

The high stiffness of LASS products also makes them very suitable for pressurised vehicles for NBC / CBRN protection.

COMPOSITE COMBAT HELMETS

FY-Composites is an established manufacturer of composite combat and special helmets: our lightweight fragment helmets and bullet-resistant helmets have visors and other accessories.

BALLISTIC SHIELDS AND LIGHTWEIGHT PROTECTION KITS

We also supply ballistics shields for mine clearing and police special forces, as well as lightweight ballistic protection kits for vehicles, containers and ships.