Armor Panels

 

Bulldog Direct Protective Systems Inc. provides a wide selection of Ballistic Panels for a variety of bullet resistant, blast mitigation or fragmentation protection applications, such as automotive armoring. They also have an architectural use, for the hardening of government buildings, court houses, schools, banks, military installations, nuclear power plants and safe room construction. Our Bullet Resistant Armor is commonly used in judge’s benches, speaker podiums, fast food, liquor, carry-out stores, and guard booths. Our Ballistic Panels can be installed inside walls, doors, desks or any place protection may be required. We don’t just sell these Bullet Resistant Panels; we offer real answers and real solutions. We have a long list of satisfied customers to back up our experience and knowledge.

 

For armor panel applications, please see the product menu at the top.

Automotive/Vehicle Armoring: Handgun and Assault Rifle Protection

 

Our Composite Armor Panels find extensive use in the automotive armor industry. Kevlar Armor Panels, Flex-Pro Thermoformable Armor Panels, Dyneema, and Spectra Shield Ballistic Panels are well suited for this type of application where lightweight ballistic protection is needed. These bulletproof panels are durable, very lightweight and simple to install. In vehicle armoring you add additional weight to the vehicle, so when using these composite ballistic panels added weight is kept to the absolute minimum. Not only will they extend the life of your vehicle’s brakes and suspension, they also reduce maintenance costs and improve overall vehicle performance. No special tools are need for cutting or installation. A disadvantage is that they are not well suited for protection from armor piercing rounds, attacks from IED’s, or blast mitigation.

Automotive/Vehicle Armoring: Blast Mitigation, Armor Piercing Rounds or IED Protection

 

Our Steel Armor Plate finds extensive use in the automotive armor industry when you need to protect the vehicle from armor piercing rounds, attacks from IED’s, blast mitigation, and fragmentation threats. Used for the vehicle floor, roof, fire wall, doors and side walls, we provide the following grades: AR 500, MIL-A-46100, MIL-A-12560 Class 1 and 2, MIL-A-46177, from 1/8” to 1-1/2” for handgun threats and up to .50 caliber armor piercing rounds, depending on the product.

Architectural Use

 

For the hardening of government buildings, court houses, schools, banks, military installations, nuclear power plants and residential safe room construction. Our Steel Armor Plate and Fiberglass Ballistic Armor Panels would be the most cost effective products for this application, due to their low cost and superior ballistic protection. These panels also add strength and stability, especially if your need is for the added protection from bomb blasts or heavy assault rifle attacks. Our Kevlar Armor Panels, Flex-Pro thermoformable Armor Panels, in a standalone lay up work well for curved applications, such as judge’s benches, speaker podiums, or desks. Dyneema and Spectra Shield Ballistic Panels are also well suited for when lightweight ballistic protection is needed for assault rifle protection. Typically, their use in such applications would be limited to special situations, due to the higher cost, limited sizes, and thickness.

 

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Kevlar Armor Panels

 

A considerable breakthrough in the development of modern ballistic armor was the creation of the aramid fibers called "KEVLAR". Kevlar is the registered trade name used by DuPont for the aramid fiber. Kevlar was originally marketed for use in strengthening radial tire belts but soon found applications in protective clothing, cables, and protective housings for equipment. Because Kevlar is a flexible fiber, it can be woven into cloth. Such cloth is strong enough to stop high-speed projectiles and, in layers, will stop bullets. Available in sheet sizes of: 50"x41", 50"x48", 50"x72" and 50"x96".

Kevlar is five times stronger than steel and ten times stronger than aluminum, and does not burn or melt. By using Kevlar in conjunction with resins like those used to make fiberglass, it's possible to mold Kevlar in "composite" materials or armor. These composites find use in ballistic helmets and lightweight vehicle armor, as well as bank counters, safe rooms, and guard stations. Kevlar is also used in making bullet resistant vests. Kevlar composites will stop most handgun rounds up to .44 Magnum. Please Note: Kevlar will not stop rifle rounds. Please see our Dyneema or Spectra Shield Armor Panels for assault rifle protection.

Our Kevlar Armor Panels can be installed in a vehicle using glue, rivets, screws, or nuts and bolts with washers. We can also water jet cut these armor panels to your exact specifications, please contact us for more information.

 

 

Flex-Pro Armor Panels

 

FLEX-PRO 50"x41" Thermoformable Vehicle Armor Panels are a laminated composite armor fabricated from a vulcanized urethane 3000 denier aramid composite. FLEX-PRO Armor panels are semi-rigid, and have excellent multi-hit capabilities and will not bunch up or fall down during ballistic incidents or severe vehicle use. Flex-Pro Ballistic Panels are thermoformable, with the use of a heat gun these panels can be formed and bent into complex shapes and will retain these shapes.

Further, FLEX-PRO Armor can be cold bonded to the vehicle surface or mechanically attached. Because FLEX-PRO Armor is based on aramid fibers there is no degradation due to vehicle temperature extremes. FLEX-PRO Armor can be easily fit into tight spaces in one piece, thereby eliminating the problems with butt joints, overlaps and the potential of secondary projectiles from the fasteners used to hold the panels in place. At NIJ standard 0108.01, level IIIA configuration of this material has an aerial density of 1.0 pounds per square foot. This provides a significant reduction in weight from more commonly used high hard steel at 6.4 lbs per sq.ft. or aluminum alloy at 3.6 lbs per sq.ft. Please Note: FLEX-PRO Armor Panels will not stop rifle rounds. Please see our Dyneema or Spectra Shield Armor Panels for Assault Rifle Protection.

 

Our Flex-Pro Armor Panels can be installed in a vehicle using glue, rivets, screws, or nuts and bolts with washers. We can also water jet cut these armor panels to your exact specifications, Please contact us for more information. These panels were tested behind .040 aluminum panels, go to next higher level of protection for standalone applications. Available in sheet sizes of: 50"x41", 50"x48", 50"x72" and 50"x96".

 

Spectra Shield Armor Panels

Spectra Shield© 50"x63" Vehicle Armor Panels are the strongest, lightest, composite ballistic material made today! Spectra Shield isn't a woven fabric like most ballistic materials, but is rather a thin, flexible ballistic composite made from two layers of unidirectional fibers held in place by flexible resins. These fibers are arranged so they cross each other at 0 and 90 degree angles, then, both fiber and resin layers are sealed between two thin sheets of polyethylene film similar to sarran wrap. Spectra Shield is ten times stronger than steel. We can also provide Spectra Shield Ballistic Panels in other sizes, please contact us for more information. Ballistic Protection up to NIJ Level III+.

 

Spectra Shield is very lightweight and waterproof. Some ideal armor applications include vehicle armoring, helicopters, aircraft, and marine use such as boats, ships, border patrol and homeland security vessels. We can custom fabricate and cut our Spectra Shield Panels to your exact specifications. We have state of the art water capabilities, send use your CAD files and we will do the rest. We can custom manufacture Spectra Shield Armor Panel kits for boats, ships, vehicles or other such applications. The cut panels can be shipped to your location ready for easy installation. Call us today for more information at 513-281-6700.

Spectra Shield composite armor panels can be glued in place, or installed with screws, nuts and bolts, etc. Our Spectra Shield armor panels were tested behind .040 aluminum panels, go to next higher level of protection for stand alone applications.

 

 

Dyneema Armor Panels

 

Dyneema 50"x63" Vehicle Armor Panels are the strongest, lightest, composite ballistic material made today! Dyneema isn't a woven fabric like most ballistic materials but is instead a thin, flexible ballistic composite made from two layers of unidirectional fibers held in place by flexible resins. These fibers are arranged so they cross each other at 0 and 90 degree angles, then, both fiber and resin layers are sealed between two thin sheets of polyethylene film similar to sarran wrap. Ballistic Protection up to NIJ Level III+.

 

Due to Dyneema's lightweight and waterproof design, some ideal armor applications are: vehicle armoring, helicopters, aircraft, and marine use such as boats, ships, border patrol and homeland security vessels. We can custom fabricate our Dyneema Ballistic Panels to your exact specifications. We have state of the art water capabilities, send us your CAD files and we will do the rest. We can custom manufacture kits for boats, ships,vehicles or other such applications.

Dyneema composite armor panels can then be glued in place, or installed with screws, nuts and bolts, etc. Our Dyneema armor panels were tested behind .040 aluminum panels, go to next higher level of protection for stand alone applications.

 

Steel Armor Plate

 

AR 500, MIL-A-46100, MIL-A-12560 Class 1 and 2, MIL-A-46177

 

Bulldog Commercial Steel Armor Plate is a high hard commercial ballistic steel that is a quenched and tempered steel armor plate which meets National Institute of Justice [N.I.J.] and Underwriters Laboratories [U.L.] threat levels.

Commercial / Non-Military Applications:
Bulldog Steel Armor Plate is used in the manufacture of money haulers, personal armored vehicles, riot shields, body armor, vehicle door panels, safe rooms, guard booths, bank counters. Bulldog Steel Armor Plate is also used in land mine and blast protection applications.

 

Bulldog Direct Protective Systems Inc. is a supplier of military grade Steel Armor Plate 1/8" through to 2" and above to the U.S. Department of Defense. Bulldog Steel Armor Plate is used in the manufacture of the U.S. Army's main battle tank, armored hummves, as well as numerous other armored military applications.

Many armored vehicle builders/manufacturers use Bulldog Steel Armor Plate exclusively.
The most highly armored U.S. Government vehicles used in transporting dignitaries, heads of state and other VIPs, along with armored "Protective Detail Vehicles" are manufactured with Bulldog Steel Armor Plate.

 

 

Fiberglass Armor Panels

 

Our Fiberglass Ballistic Armor panels are manufactured using multiple layers of fiberglass cloth or woven roving that are bonded together with a preimpregnated resin under heat and pressure to form a ridged bullet resistant/bulletproof Panel. This is the same fiberglass that boats are made from, only with many more layers of the fiberglass cloth used in the process.

What are some common design applications for Bulldog Fiberglass Armor Panels? Bullet resistant panels or sheathing are specified in many design situations. The more common applications include judge's benches, courtroom protection for the jury area and the witness box, within the woodwork of teller's cages or counters in banks, as a bullet proof barrier or wall within government buildings, police stations, district attorney's offices, U.S. Marshals offices, FBI and ATF offices, guard houses, control rooms within prisons, convenience stores, check cashing stores, etc. Bulldog Fiberglass Ballistic Panels are sometimes used within high-end residences to make a "safe room". Standard sheets sizes are 48"x96". Our Bulletproof Fiberglass Armor Panels are a very cost effective product, at a lower cost than Steel Armor Plate and very easy to cut and install.