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Battelle Develops Breakthrough Composite Vehicle Armor System

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Friday, March 14th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt Battelle has developed armor called the Resin and Ceramic Engineered (RACE) composite armor system that potentially could solve current IED and Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFP) problems for wheeled, armored vehicles like Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles, Strykers and the future Joint Light Tactical Vehicle. "The new technology that we are offering is lighter and stronger by about 30 percent and about 30 percent less costly" than current steel of comparable thickness, Scott Versluis, Battelle commercialization manager,…

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