Soldier Protection Technologies
Abstract
This effort develops integrated lightweight, flexible, and modular protection equipment that is tailored to support the 'Soldier as a system' approach for defeat of emerging threats. Research areas encompass high fidelity ballistic impact injury models for hard and soft tissues, novel ceramic architectures to include graded and hierarchically structured ceramics, and novel fiber solutions for backing materials to deliver Soldier protection systems to meet emerging ballistic and signature management threats. This effort supports small caliber lethal mechanisms research in PE 0602143A (Soldier Lethality Technology) / Project AY6 (Soldier Squad Small Arms Armaments Technology).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- d8561b4c4ed660b60ecdacfbafff40ba