BHABHA KAVACH

 

India’s lightest bullet-proof jacket, Bhabha Kavach, was launched at the International Police Expo 2019 in New Delhi.

Developed jointly by the Ordnance Factories Board and the public sector metals and metal alloys manufacturer MIDHANI.

 

Highlights

• It can withstand bullets from an AK-47 assault rifle (7.62 mm hard steel core bullets), and the 5.56 mm INSAS rifle.
• The Kavach weighs 9.2 kg and has a five-year warranty.
• The jacket “is powered with nano technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre”.
• Bhabha Kavach meets US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Level III standards, which guarantees protection against 7.62 mm NATO-standard bullets.
• Most army bulletproof jackets meet the lesser NIJ Level II standard, which protects soldiers from 9 mm bullets fired from a carbine or handgun.
• Bhabha Kavach is built from layers of “high-density, high-tenacity polyethelene, which are thermo-sealed” by MIDHANI.
• Each Bharat Kavach has four hard armour plates.
• BARC has transferred the carbon nanomaterial technology to the OFB.

 

Types of Bulletproof jackets

Bulletproof jacket armour is of two types.

1. Soft armour provides lesser protection, suitable for threats from handgun and small arms bullets and is worn by bodyguards and VIPs against personal threats.
2. Hard armour is stronger and heavier and is designed to stop high calibre rounds. NIJ Level IV jackets even provide protection against armour-piercing rounds.

 

Body Armor Protection Levels

• The two most commonly recognized standards for body armor come from the US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the UK Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST, formerly HOSDB).
• These are widely held to be the world leaders in standardizing body armor.
• These standards outline exactly what threats each level of body armor will protect against, as well as the strength of the attack it will stop.

 

The NIJ classifies all armors in the following levels:

 

Source: BS

 

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