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Kidde Aerospace & Defense Automatic Fire Extinguishing Systems for Armored Vehicles

Kidde was founded in 1917 and has long been associated with specialty fire safety products for aircraft and vehicles.

Automatic fire extinguishing systems

Kidde Aerospace & Defense (KAD) is the largest designer, manufacturer and through-life supporter of automatic fire extinguishing systems (AFES) for most military vehicles used by Western armed forces. KAD is a part of Hamilton Sundstrand, a United Technologies Corporation (UTC) company.

Crew automatic fire extinguishing system

Kidde is well known for its crew AFES, installed since the 1980s on all major main battle tanks, armored personnel carriers and variants. This system detects and suppresses explosive fires in the crew compartment almost instantaneously.

Explosive fires are caused by the penetration of fuel tanks or hydraulic lines by enemy threats. Less than one pint of fuel burned inside a crew compartment can create lethal overpressures, temperatures and oxygen starvation levels. High reliability, millisecond response optical fire sensors are coupled to fast acting, high-rate discharge extinguishers to prevent explosive fires almost before they get started.

Fire protection for military vehicle exteriors

Recent experience in asymmetric warfare conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan has identified the need for additional fire suppression to protect vehicle fuel tanks, engine compartments, tires (and road wheels on tracked vehicles), and other external areas, from roadside bombs, improvised explosive devices and explosively formed penetrators. These threats have been used against both heavily armored vehicles and tactical wheeled vehicles.

Kidde systems to address some or all of these various fire threats are available and being installed on a variety of vehicle types including HMMWVs, MRAPs, APCs and MBTs.

Fire extinguishing systems for smaller vehicles

As the adoption of AFES has spread to tactical wheeled vehicles, so has the demand for lighter weight, more compact systems. Kidde has been a designer and manufacturer of lightweight, compact fire suppression systems for commercial and military airplanes for many years and a wealth of lightweight aviation technologies are already being installed on various vehicles.

Regional offices

KAD supports its military vehicle customers from these locations:

  • Kidde Aerospace & Defence Australia serving Australia and New Zealand.
  • Kidde Aerospace & Defense USA – Headquarters.
  • Kidde Deugra Germany – serving Continental Europe.
  • Kidde Dual Spectrum USA – serving Canada, Egypt, Italy, S.Korea, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Turkey and USA.
  • Kidde Graviner / Kidde Research England – serving China, India, Japan, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa and United Kingdom. Kidde Research engages in fire sciences research for the benefit of all KAD companies and their customers.
  • L’Hotellier, France – serving Algeria, France, Romania, Russia and UAE.

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Regional Offices

Kidde Aerospace & Defense

4200 Airport Drive, NW

Wilson

NC 27893

United States of America
+1 252 237 7004 +1 252 246 7180
Kidde Graviner

Mathisen Way, Poyle Road

Colnbrook, Berkshire SL3OHB

Other

United Kingdom
John O’Brien +44 1753 683245 +44 1753 681792
Kidde Dual Spectrum

163 Aero Camino

Goleta, CA 93117

Other

United States of America
Greg Chambers +1 805 961 0555 +1 805 685 8227 ( greg.chambers@hs.utc.com
Kidde Australia

5 Becon Court – Unit 2

Hallam, Victoria 3803

Other

Australia
Ray Walton +61 3 8786 0657 +61 3 8786 0680
L’Hotellier

4 Rue Henri Poincare

Antony Cedex 92167

Other

France
Benoit Drouilly +33 1 4666 0808 +33 1 4666 2324
Kidde Deugra

Halskestrasse 30

Ratingen, 40880

Other

Germany
Dirk Beckmann +49 2102 405130 +49-2101-405129

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