United Defense LP

Bae Systems Land & Armaments L.p.

David Arthur Schade

Mark Albert Middione

Ronald E Musante

Adonis Kassinos

Dennis Jenks

Jaime Alforque

Adrienne Bourque

Valent Horvatich

James Robert Turner

Marco Albert Middione

Jeffrey Faul

Vernon Curtis Krueger

Kenneth B Groves

Chris Tarantino

Christopher Tarantino

David Carlin

Tom Winant

John Kenneth Orrell

Christopher Michael Tarantino

Ron Cabreros

George Edgar Thomas, Jr

Torrey Lane Pike

Michael Brian McArthur

James Edward Drotleff

Thomas C Winant

James Cole Barthel

The invention is a gradient ballistic material and honeycomb grille that includes a louver system and a honeycomb structure. The louver system contains a gradient of ballistic materials to improve air handling and protection. The louver system may be constructed of one or more pieces of ballistic material so that at least one section is harder than a second section. The honeycomb structure acts a 'catcher' or backstop to collect the fragments created by a projectiles contact with the harder section of the louver system.

Gradient ballistic material and honeycomb grille

An optimized grille design that narrows the louver pitch and narrows the louver construction so as to maintain the air flow through the grille. An aerodynamic shape is applied to the leading edge of the louver thus lowering drag and reducing the pressure drop at the inlet.

Optimized bent bar grille

A fast acting active protection system for military vehicles defeats RPG (rocket propelled grenade) threats fired from close ranges. The system minimizes the hazard to troops and civilians nearby. The system uses a plurality of passive sensors to locate the threat and initialize the system. A low cost radar or laser tracker is used as the means to determine range, velocity, and (if required) angular position of the threat. The countermunition used may be one of several choices, with the requisites being that the countermunition provides fast response with low inertia, and is able to damage or destroy the detected threat. A multi-barrel recoilless gun is the weapon of choice. A launching device is used to deploy and aim the countermunition and the tracking means. On board software and electronics are used to control the system.

Fast acting active protection system

A ballistic grille structure is combined in a stacked array with a similar grille structure to yield ballistic performance capability greater than the ballistic performance capability of the original grille structure. The grille structures may be of the type currently used in single, unscathed deployments with each grille structure a truncated version of the current structure such that a synergistic projectile defeating capability is realized by the stacked array of truncated grille structures.

Multi-tiered ballistic air handling grille

The invention provides a grille armor system for use on a armored vehicle. The grille armor system adds an applique grille to a grille to increase the protection provided by the grille armor system. The applique grille is designed to add a minimal profile. The applique grille also is designed to allow maximum air flow through the applique grille. In the preferred embodiment, the applique grille is made of 4 mm thick steal bars place 8 mm apart to provide added protection to aluminum S-shaped louvers against high velocity 20 mm fragment simulating projectiles.

Grille armor applique'

The invention provides an improved method and apparatus for bonding ceramic tiles to armor. The invention uses a toughened epoxy adhesive and a rubber interlayer to improve the bonding of ceramic tile to armor. A scrim cloth is embedded in adhesive layers to serve as a wick and spacer to uniformly distribute the epoxy.

Interlayer for ceramic armor

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

David Arthur Schade