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Incident Control Systems, LLC Announces Release of Revolution Armor in Formed Configurations
New Manufacturing Process allows Ultra High Hard Steel to be formed for vehicle armor and personal body armor applications.
New Bedford, MA, November 30, 2011: Incident Control Systems, LLC announced today that it has released Revolution Armor in curved and angled configurations. Originally released to the market, in flat plate configurations, Revolution Armor can now be fabricated to meet many design geometries.
“Bending an ultra high hard steel plate is not an easy problem to solve” stated Steve Monette, General Manager of Incident Control Systems. “Bending ultra high hard steel alloys usually leads to catastrophic failure of the plate. However, with our new process, we have been able to achieve bends up to 25-degrees and curvatures of 18-in radius without failure, loss of hardness, or degradation of ballistic performance.
The new curved and bent configurations increase the number of potential applications for usage by Law Enforcement, Military, and Civilian entities. For Law Enforcement, Revolution Armor in curved configurations can be used for ballistic shields, rifle plates and cruiser doors. For the Military, Revolution Armor can be used in military vehicle doors, gunners protections kits (GPK) as well as up armoring rotary wing aircraft. Utilizing this new technology, ICS has designed and built a multi-angled replacement door for HMMWV variants. ICS has already designed and built a low cost, multi-hit, Level III rifle plate for the Law Enforcement Market.
Revolution Armor utilizes an innovative steel alloy that features extremely pure alloying elements that are transformed into ultra high hard steel. This produces a steel that performs like a hard ceramic strike face, but without the high cost associated with ceramic-composite armor systems.
ABOUT INCIDENT CONTROL SYSTEMS
Incident Control Systems, LLC is a vertically integrated armor design, manufacturing and vehicle integration firm located in New Bedford, MA with over 15 years experience providing military and civilian personal and vehicles with composite armor solutions. www.incidentcontrolsystems.com
Incident Control Systems, LLC Announces Strategic Relationship with Swedish Steelmaker, SSAB
SSAB and Incident Control Systems Sign Agreement to jointly market new Armox Advance™ alloy for vehicle armor use.
SSAB and Incident Control Systems Sign Agreement to jointly market new Armox Advance™ alloy for vehicle armor use.
New Bedford, MA, October 6, 2011: Incident Control Systems, LLC (ICS) announced today that it has signed a multi-year agreement with SSAB Americas to exclusively develop and market ballistic armor solutions using SSAB’s steel alloy Armox Advance.
ICS has developed a new class of vehicle armor solutions using Armox Advance that outperforms and weighs less than existing metal armor solutions.
Using ICS patent-pending technology, Armox Advance costs significantly less than ceramic armor but exhibits weight savings and ballistic performance similar to ceramic armor systems.“We are very pleased to have entered into this Agreement with SSAB, a world class leader in steel manufacturing techniques. Armox Advance represents the latest in steel technology and when combined with our patent-pending composite process, will give the market a new generation of armor performance,” stated ICS President, Steve Monette Jr.
ICS expects REVOLUTION ARMOR will be a welcome addition to the Company’s product line by providing a low-cost, lightweight armor solution for those clients who can’t afford the cost of its highly regarded ceramics or the extra weight of metallic solutions.
ABOUT INCIDENT CONTROL SYSTEMS
Incident Control Systems, LLC is a vertically integrated armor solution engineering, manufacturing and vehicle integration concern which has been supplying armor solutions to the Department of Defense for over 16 years. ICS is located in New Bedford, MA. www.IncidentControlSystems.com
ABOUT SSAB
SSAB is a global leader in value added, high strength steel. SSAB offers products developed in close cooperation with its customers to create a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world. SSAB has employees in over 45 countries and operates production facilities in Sweden and the US. SSAB is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange, Stockholm. www.ssab.com.
Incident Control Systems, LLC Announces Strategic Partnership with Braveheart Venture Partners of Nashua, NH
Braveheart Ventures and Incident Control Systems Sign Strategic Agreement for Series A Investment of $500,000
New Bedford, MA, September 27, 2011: Incident Control Systems, LLC (ICS) announced today that it has completed the first stage of a $500,000.00 strategic and funding agreement with Braveheart Venture Partners of Nashua, NH (BVP).
Steve Monette, JR. stated “Our relationship with Braveheart will continue to afford us the ability to rapidly deploy and promote REVOLUTION ARMOR as well as our other product lines. We expect that the BVP investment will play a significant role in our ability to accelerate market expansion of REVOLUTION Armor as it continues to gain recognition. We are also making system upgrades to our Manufacturing and Quality system that will further our ability to deliver Revolution Armor. We are extremely pleased with the progress to date”
Revolution Armor is a new composite system that utilizes an innovative steel alloy that features extremely pure alloying elements that are transformed into ultra high hard steel that performs like a hard ceramic strike face, but without the high cost associated with ceramic armor. Revolution Armor is specifically targeted toward reducing weight and cost to US Military vehicle armor and aircraft armor applications
ABOUT INCIDENT CONTROL SYSTEMS
Incident Control Systems, LLC is a vertically integrated armor design, manufacturing and vehicle integration firm located in New Bedford, MA with over 15 years experience providing military personal and vehicles with composite armor solutions.
ABOUT BRAVEHEART VENTURE PARTNERS
Braveheart Venture Partners provides strategic and funding assistance to early stage, high growth companies in the New England region and has a proven track record of success over the last 20 years.
Incident Control Systems, LLC Announces the Release of Patent Pending Revolution Armor Systems.
New class of steel-composite armor proven to outperform existing metallic armor solutions at significantly reduced weight.
New Bedford, MA, August 25, 2011: Incident Control Systems, LLC (ICS) announced today that it has released Revolution Armor to the vehicle and structural armor markets after 2 years in development. Revolution Armor is a new generation of composite armor and represents the latest in armor material technology.
The patent pending composite utilizes an innovative steel alloy that features exceptionally pure alloying elements that performs like a hard ceramic strike face, but without the high cost associated with ceramic armor.
Revolution Armor has been shown in independent laboratory testing to defeat the typical Light Tactical Vehicle threats at areal densities usually reserved for high cost ceramic-composite armor designs. When tested against AP and non-AP small arms threats, Revolution Armor consistently outperforms Rolled Homogenous Armor and High Hardness Steel on a pound for pound basis. Fragment simulating projectile testing has shown Revolution to perform exceptionally well. Revolution Armor exhibits exceptional multi-hit properties for all types of threats, unlike ceramic tiles which fracture and shatter under multiple impacts. Revolution Armor can easily withstand impacts as close as a couple of inches.
“The release of Revolution Armor and related patent filings represents the end result of a 2 year effort to develop a low cost replacement for ceramic composite armor. We are extremely pleased to have reached our goal and this moment. With Revolution, Survivability engineers now have the latest in steel and composite technology to use in their life saving missions”, stated ICS President Steve Monette Jr.
ICS will continue to market REVOLUTION ARMOR as a solution to replace ceramic composites and overweight metallic solutions.
ABOUT INCIDENT CONTROL SYSTEMS
Incident Control Systems, LLC is a vertically integrated armor design, manufacturing and vehicle integration firm located in New Bedford, MA with over 15 years experience providing military personal and vehicles with composite armor solutions.