Ballistic Testing
PBL has the expertise and experience in ballistic testing of vehicle, aerospace and personal armour to a wide range of defence, security, automotive and infrastructure standards.
Facilities:
Utilising our fully equipped, indoor ballistic and impact laboratory, PBL offers a full suite of ballistic testing capabilities across a full spectrum of industrial, defence and civilian test standards. Our carefully selected staff hold individual specialisms providing the knowledge to back this technical capability.
Our primary test chamber can accommodate samples, builds and equipment several meters in size along with the provision for protected instrumentation space within the chamber. Shots are delivered with industry leading precision and measured with calibrated instrumentation enabling PBL to meet the most stringent of aimpoint and velocity requirements for both R&D and certification tasks. With a multiple screen chronograph, missed velocity readings are mitigated while also providing the capability to measure and record projectile velocity decay, ballistic coefficient and cross-check projectile stability for each shot as required.
Alongside our primary test chamber is a spacious and clean customer area, with high-speed Wi-Fi and good coffee. This enables our attending customers to directly or remotely engage with customers throughout a test series or other simply continue with secondary tasks throughout a day’s testing.
Utilising our universal breech, PBL is able to quickly change between threat types & calibres from 5.45mm through to 14.5x114mm (Plus 20mm FSP and up to 40mm grenade / debris) quickly and efficiently. We are also adjust the target orientation to achieve angled shots (e.g. to represent roof shots). Following any of these, high volume filtered extraction ensures a clean, safe and dust free working environment, especially important when testing target or ammunition combinations with a likelihood of hazardous particulates.
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High velocity FSP ballistic testing for EOD suits
Services Offered:
Full ballistic test and certification capability (subject to standard type).
Reverse engineering of threat projectiles including; research, analysis, manufacture and validation of surrogate projectiles.
Comfortable customer facilities including Wi-Fi, Secure, internal CCTV of all testing, on site conference facilities (available on request), break-out / lunch area.
Catering and event hosting (on request)
Typical test products:
Hard vehicle, marine, aerospace armour including steel, composite and ceramic panels
Soft armour including bomb blankets, body armour and EOD suits
Helmets, Shields and Body armour
Security Doorsets, ballistic glass and complete panelling systems
Periscopes and vision devices
Debris protection & industrial blow-out protection screens
Capability:
Calibre:
5.45mm to 14.5x114mm conventional
Up to 25mm high velocity fragmentation
Up to 200mm novel threats
Velocity: From 100ms-1 to in excess of 2000ms-1 (subject to projectile type)
Stab: Under commissioning
Shock: Under commissioning
Typical test standards:
AEP-55 Vol1(ed2) / STANAG 4569: Procedures for Evaluating the Protection Level of Logistic and Light Armoured Vehicles.
AEP-2920 / STANAG 2920: PROCEDURES FOR THE EVALUATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PERSONAL ARMOUR BULLET AND FRAGMENTATION THREATS
MIL-STD-662F: V50 Test for ballistic armour
EN 1063/1522: Security Glazing – Testing and Classification of resistance to ballistic attack / Windows, Doors, Shutters & Blinds Bullet Resistance
VSAG-12: Ballistic and Blast Testing for Civilian Armoured Vehicles (CAV).
PAS300: Civilian armoured vehicle – Test methods for ballistic and blast protection
VPAM BRV (2009): Bullet Resistance for Special Protected Vehicles.
NIJ 0108.01: Ballistic Resistant Protective Materials
NIJ 0106.01: NIJ Standard for Ballistic Helmets
NIJ 0101.06: Ballistic resistance of Body Armour
CAST 012/17
UL752
Postal customers are advised that all import, customs and transport costs are their responsibility. PBL reserves the right to refuse delivery of samples with outstanding charges to be cleared. Invoicing for tests is sent upon completion and must be cleared prior to release of results.
