Tweet
Peel-And-Stick Armor May Save Soldiers' Lives
POSTED: 3:15 p.m. EST January 26, 2004
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Peel-and-stick armor could soon save the lives of some GIs.
A new peel-and-stick armor system is going to be tested in Iraq. The armor plates are like giant bumper stickers.
Soldiers just peel off the backing and stick the plates on the sides of their Humvees.
The Aztik 100 armor was developed by Washington-state based Armor Systems International. The company says the light-weight composite plates can stop a round from a heavy machine gun.
The company's Ed Menteer says they'll be putting the armor in harm's way for a real-world test. Welding steel plates to a Humvee can take weeks and cost $100,000.
But Menteer says the peel-and-stick armor goes on in a couple of hours and costs a fraction of the conventional type.
POSTED: 3:15 p.m. EST January 26, 2004
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Peel-and-stick armor could soon save the lives of some GIs.
A new peel-and-stick armor system is going to be tested in Iraq. The armor plates are like giant bumper stickers.
Soldiers just peel off the backing and stick the plates on the sides of their Humvees.
The Aztik 100 armor was developed by Washington-state based Armor Systems International. The company says the light-weight composite plates can stop a round from a heavy machine gun.
The company's Ed Menteer says they'll be putting the armor in harm's way for a real-world test. Welding steel plates to a Humvee can take weeks and cost $100,000.
But Menteer says the peel-and-stick armor goes on in a couple of hours and costs a fraction of the conventional type.
Comment