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    Vehicle & Aircraft Armor

    Protect aircraft and vehicles from ballistic assault with Saint-Gobain’s industry-leading, custom-designed ceramic armor materials.


    Defense, Vehicle Armor

    Saint-Gobain’s silicon carbide ceramic tile armor assemblies protect land vehicles, fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. Saint-Gobain designs and co-develops armor panel components for military, law enforcement and civilian applications. All AC-130U gunships incorporate Hexoloy® SA sintered silicon carbide tiles.Saint-Gobain offers unparalleled design flexibility with the most innovative and consistent ceramics in the world for composite armor systems. High-performance, lightweight ceramic materials from Saint-Gobain are designed to protect against current and emerging lethal ballistic threats.

    The panels are custom designed from a variety of shapes including hexagons, squares and rectangles. Saint-Gobain’s extensive material portfolio and forming capabilities ensure a solution for any armor need, including unique machined tiles that accommodate complex shapes, holes and angles.


    Features and Benefits

    Saint-Gobain supplies ceramic armor for land and air protection in the following forms:


    • Defense, Vehicle & Aircraft Armor (AC-130A)Finished ceramic components for armor solutions

    • Unfinished machined blanks

    • Pressed near net shape components

    • High volume pressed net shape components

    • Complex, highly machined parts

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