Tata Steel To Unveil New Armour Steel At DSEI

Tata Steel announced today that it has received over 200 sample orders of its perforated armour steel, which has been exported to a number of countries worldwide including Germany, France, the USA and India.

This revolutionary armour steel, formerly known as Super Bainite, has also undergone a number of design improvements and has taken on a new brand name, PAVISE SBS 600P, according to a statement.  

The company will be exhibiting its PAVISE product at next week's DSEI show, the world-leading defence and security event, which runs from 10-13 September at the ExCel London exhibition centre. 

PAVISE, which provides an efficient and cost-effective armouring solution for military vehicles, as well as for defended infrastructure such as watch towers or sangars, has now been tested up to STANAG Level 4 to create armour capable of resisting both small arms and heavy machine gun fire with armour-piercing projectiles. 

The ballistic performance of PAVISE - the way it deals with the effect of projectiles - is at least twice that of conventional rolled homogenous steel armour. The perforated design of the steel creates a large number of edges which disrupt the path of incoming projectiles, significantly reducing their potency. 

Dr Henrik Adam, Tata Steel's Chief Commercial Officer in Europe, said, "Tata Steel has spent significant effort developing this unique product and we are delighted with its performance. As a company we are well positioned to support the market, both in the UK and the wider European markets, and we look forward to receiving the feedback of all the companies currently testing PAVISE." 

By developing a process to mechanically punch the metal before the steel is hardened, and by making the holes smaller and narrower, Tata Steel has managed to reduce the cost of the perforation process ten-fold. It is also now possible to bend the steel into tight angles in the perforated condition, before hardening to ultra-high levels of hardness, the statement added.