Ceramics for Body, Vehicle and Aircraft Armor
Saint-Gobain Engineered Ceramics offers a broad range of ceramic materials as the strike face in composite armor protection systems, including silicon carbide (SiC), boron carbide and alumina. The properties of these materials — high hardness, fracture toughness, compressive strength and elastic modulus — provide superior ballistic capability to help defeat high-velocity projectiles. Bulletproof Vest
With a long and proud history of protecting the American warfighter, Saint-Gobain Engineered Ceramics has provided personal ceramic armor since the 1960s, including the first true ceramic body armor system. In fact, we manufactured 70,000 plates of ceramic body armor to protect U.S. troops in Vietnam.
In addition to personal protection ceramic armor, Saint-Gobain Engineered Ceramics manufactures ceramic armor for vehicular, aircraft and other ballistic protection applications. It has provided sintered SiC for the armor systems of all U.S. Department of Defense fleets of AC-130U gunships and for many of the C130, C17, C5 and C141 transport planes.
With a high-volume capacity to produce extremely complex shapes for a variety of ballistic protection applications, Saint-Gobain Engineered Ceramics is a vertically integrated supplier — a reliable source of products ranging from powder to the finished sintered alpha SiC ceramic armor part — with an innovative product line that includes:
Technical Production and Development Efforts
The business continues to participate on numerous ceramic armor programs that have supplied SiC ceramic plates and tiles to many higher-tier integrators, including directly to the United States Army. Other key facts include:
Saint-Gobain Engineered Ceramics is part of Saint-Gobain High-Performance Materials, which has sales in excess of $4 billion and more than 27,000 employees. Saint-Gobain Corporation had gross sales in excess of $43 billion in 2015 and more than 170,000 employees.
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