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Military Body Armor
Protect the modern warfighter with the industry's most reliable body armor.
Military professionals require high-performance protection at the lightest weight possible. Saint-Gobain’s silicon carbide ceramic materials for composite systems provide superior ballistic protection against a wide range of threats, meeting or exceeding MIL-STD specifications.
Saint-Gobain has been protecting military personnel for more than 40 years. From the world’s first ceramic body armor system developed to protect U.S. troops in the Vietnam conflict to advanced systems for warfighters in global modern combat, Saint-Gobain has been at the forefront of innovation, performance and manufacturing reliability.
Saint-Gobain’s extensive material portfolio and production capabilities ensure a solution for any ceramic armor need. Saint-Gobain is vertically integrated, from silicon carbide powder to finished torso plates, ensuring time-tested quality and consistency of our products.
Saint-Gobain’s ceramic armor materials provide significant advantages including:
Custom engineering to your specifications- Ceramic plates for any part of the body
- Co-development to meet your needs
- Consistent high-quality manufacturing
- Extensive worldwide capacity
- Robust export compliance program
- Rapid prototyping
- Global R&D resources
Specifications
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MATERIAL |
HEXOLOY® |
HEXOLOY® |
HEXOLOY® |
HEXOLOY® |
CRYSTAR® |
SILIT® |
FORCERAM® |
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Performance |
Saint-Gobain's extensive portfolio of ceramic materials is available in all shapes and sizes, which meet or exceed Military, NIJ and Special Threat specifications |
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Features |
Industry Leading Performance |
Multi-Hit |
Light Weight |
Lighter Weight |
More Economical |
Economical |
Lightest Weight |
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Phase Composition |
Sintered SiC |
Sintered SiC |
Sintered SiC |
Sintered SiC |
Recrystall- |
Reaction-Bonded SiC |
Bonded SiC |
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Grain Size |
4 - 10µ |
6 - 10µ |
3 - 10µ |
3 - 10µ |
<.2mm |
<.2mm |
n/a |
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Density (g/cm3) |
3.15 |
3.15 |
2.98 |
2.82 |
3.07 |
3.05 |
2.8 |
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Hardness Knoop 100g (kg/mm2) |
2500 |
2500 |
2500 |
2450 |
n/a |
n/a |
75 RHA |
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Flexural Strength, |
380 |
410 |
240 |
n/a |
200 |
250 |
160 |
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Compressive Strength (MPa) |
3900 |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
850 |
850 |
n/a |
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Elastic Modulus (Gpa) |
430 |
410 |
400 |
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300 - 385 |
300 - 380 |
250 |
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Fracture Toughness (MPa*m1/2) |
3 |
3.5 |
3.8 |
n/a |
4 |
4 |
3.5 |
Disclaimer: The information, recommendations and opinions set forth herein are offered solely for your consideration, inquiry, and verification and are not, in part or total, to be construed as constituting a warranty or representation for which we assume legal responsibility. Nothing contained herein is to be interpreted as authorization to practice a patented invention without a license. Hexoloy®, Forceram®, Crystar®, Silit® and Norbide® are registered trademarks of Saint-Gobain Ceramic Materials.