International Soldiers System Conference
Today’s soldiers are facing an evolving range of threats from blunt trauma to ballistics, explosive devices and blast weapons. Characterization of the threats they face and accurately predicting the level of injury mitigation is essential to the design of effective personal protection systems. Timely evolution of the equipment standards and evaluation methodologies is also required to reflect the current understanding of injury risks and to provide personnel protection at the highest possible level of confidence.Current efforts on blunt impact, ballistic, and blast protection evaluation systems are presented. A new test procedure is being proposed to assess blunt trauma protection capabilities of crowd management equipment. To assist helmet designers with preventing skull fracture and brain injuries resulting from backface deformation of the ballistic helmet shell during impact, a novel test headform was developed. A similar approach for measuring behind armour effects is used to characterize the performance of body armour against the defeated bullet. Another series of tools and test methods is being developed to evaluate personal protection systems against explosive devices and blast weapons.
Bibliographies
Anctil, B., and Shewchenko, N., "Performance Evaluation of Soldier's Protection Systems" International Soldier Systems Conference, Brighton, UK.