Navy & armor equipments
General introduction
Special steel plate is used for ballistic protection on a wide range of military vehicles, from light reconnaissance vehicles to main battle tanks. The protection must be as effective and at the same time as light as possible.
Ballistic protection must also be provided for installations such as observation posts and shelters.
Similar steels can be used as targets for the evaluation of munitions.
A wide range of civil protection applications also exist for steel plate, including the protection of light vehicles, limousines, armored trucks, buildings, doors and safes.
Navy vessels have very special needs in terms of the steel used for their construction. Surface vessels require high-performance ballistic protection using steel plate suitable for cutting and welding.
Steels for submarine hulls have additional requirements in terms of mechanical performance (high yield strength) and workability (forming and welding).
Ballistic protection
Whether for military or civil ballistic protection applications, you need steel plate offering the highest possible protection with the lowest possible weight. This plate must offer an optimum combination of hardness, ductility and toughness along with sufficient workability (cutting, machining, welding...).
Industeel has extensive know-how in ballistic protection, based on 150 years of experience on the market.
Dedicated production facilities and appropriate metallurgical solutions are used to produce steel products for ballistic protection applications with hardnesses from 250 to 650 HB and thicknesses from 2,5 to 600 mm (.098 to 24").
Project teams provide expert advices, modern materials, solutions for integration in your project. Industeel can meet all needs, from ballistic protection plate right up to complex laser-cut parts meeting stringent tolerances.
Industeel also supplies steel targets for the evaluation or qualification of munitions, offering characteristics that are homogeneous throughout the plate thickness and reproducible. They can be supplied with or without holes or attachments for handling and also in a large range of thicknesses to avoid plate stackin...
Visit the following pages for more information:
- Our Brands: Mars®
- Our Products: Navy & Armor plates
Navy
For submarine hulls, you need steels with very high mechanical performance (high yield strength) and sufficient workability for cutting, forming and welding.
Industeel offers submarine hull plates, reinforcement members and ingots for forged parts. Our steel products cover all the grades used for submarine construction around the world.
For surface vessels, ballistic protection is essential. Once again, Industeel offers optimum steel products for all your needs.
Visit the following pages for more information:
- Our Products: Navy & Armor plates
- Our Products: High strength steel plates
- Our Products: Stainless steel & nickel alloy plates
References
Industeel is a leader in high-hardness steels for navy and ballistic protection applications and the world's leading supplier of 600 HB steel plate.
Customer and project details are of course confidential.
Although certain details cannot be disclosed, general aspects of a number of case studies demonstrate our ability to meet the needs of our customers.
Case studies: Military ballistic protection
Customer need: A ballistic protection solution for integration between the structure and outside panel of an existing vehicle. Technically, the challenge was to replace a 21 mm weight by a solution 8 mm weight.
Industeel solution: Perforated MARS® 300 10 mm thick with an R10 T18 configuration (55 kg/m2).
Results: Tested and approved by an official organization in the customer's country, same weight as a composite solution with a better multi-hit capability.
1100 vehicles are today equipped with Perforated MARS® 300 ballistic protection, representing 300 metric tons of steel supplied over 4 years.
Case studies: Civil ballistic protection
Customer need:Â A 600 HB steel for high level ballistic protection with bending characteristics equivalent to a 500 HB or even a 400 HB product.
Industeel solution: MARS®300 Ni+ steel plate with a thickness of 9 mm delivered in highly malleable green state.
Results: Thanks to the high malleability of the green state, bending is possible with a radius of 5 times the thickness. Subsequent heat treatment of the bent part, following the instructions of our metallurgy department, allows the material to recover its 600 HB hardness.
Case studies: Navy
Customer need: Steel plate for the hull of a new submarine design.
Industeel solution: 80 HLES high yield strength steel plate.
Results: After comparative testing with other materials, our 80 HLES grade high strength steel plate was selected as the best material for the hulls of this new submarine.
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