Armor steel

Armor steel

 
 
 
 

Mars® 280: Rolled Homogeneous Armor heat treated for maximum resistance to shock

Mars®280 is a less hardness (typical 280 HBW), high-toughness protection steel offering maximum resistance to shock and blast waves for all vehicle structures (main battle tanks, armored personal carriers …)

Advantages

  • Easy processing (for a wide range of thicknesses), while keeping good and multipurpose ballistic properties for any kind of threat
  • Adapted metallurgical properties according to specific requirements (chemical composition, hardness range, thickness range…)
  • Excellent homogeneity and reproducibility

Mars® 380: Rolled Homogeneous Armor for ballistic protection & evaluation of armor-defeating ammunition

Mars® 380 is a protection steel (typical 380 HBW) designed for all vehicle structures (main battle tanks, armored personal carriers …) and for ammunition testing targets. Mars® 380 steel is highly versatile, combining ease of use even in important thicknesses, with good ballistic properties against all ammunitions.

Advantages

  • Easy processing (for a wide range of thicknesses), while keeping good and multipurpose ballistic properties for any kind of threat
  • Adapted metallurgical properties according to specific requirements (chemical composition, hardness range, thickness range…)
  • Excellent homogeneity and reproducibility.
  • Available in different classes:
    • Class 1: for vehicles structures
    • Class 3: for targets for the evaluation of armor-defeating ammunitions.

Mars® 440: Medium Hardness Armor

Mars® 440 is a protection steel intended to be used as vehicle structures for protection against mines and IED.

It offers optimal compromise in terms of hardness (typical 440 HBW), toughness, and ductility for resistance against blast loads and fragments while keeping excellent workability, especially bending and welding, for building specific vehicle profiles used for blast protection (example: V-shaped floor).

Advantages

  • Easy processing (for a wide range of thicknesses), while keeping good and multipurpose ballistic properties for any kind of threat
  • Adapted metallurgical properties according to specific requirements (chemical composition, hardness range, thickness range…)
  • Excellent homogeneity and reproducibility

Mars® 500: High-Hardness Armor

Mars® 500 is a high-hardness (typical 500 HBW) protection steel offering the optimal combination of ballistic resistance and workability for the following applications: – Very light to medium-weight vehicle structures – Add-on armor of any thickness for usage up to heavy tanks. – Boxes, containers, shelters, reservoirs, door frames, etc.

Advantages

  • Well balanced solution between workability and weight saving used in military and civil applications
  • Tight tolerances (+/-0.2 mm) from very thin thickness 2.5 mm up to medium thickness
  • Excellent flatness and homogeneity, Mars® 500 sheets are delivered with a guaranteed flatness of 3 mm/m and uniformity of mechanical properties throughout the material

Mars® 600: Ultra-high-hardness armor with increased workability

Mars® 600 is a multipurpose ultra-high-hard (typical 600 HBW) protection steel with impressive ballistic behavior in terms of deformation capacity and resistance to multi-impacts together with excellent toughness and workability (mainly bending) close to a 500HB steel. Its great properties suggest unlimited possibilities, as add-on armor but also as a structural material.

Advantages

  • Easy processing (for a wide range of thicknesses), while keeping good and multipurpose ballistic properties for any kind of threat
  • Adapted metallurgical properties according to specific requirements (chemical composition, hardness range, thickness range…)
  • Excellent homogeneity and reproducibility

Mars® 650: Ultra-high-hardness armor with maximum resistance to penetration

Mars® 650 is an ultra-high-hard (typical 650 HBW) protection steel offering uncompromising ballistic resistance performance, for use as add-on armor.

Advantages

  • Easy processing (for a wide range of thicknesses), while keeping good and multipurpose ballistic properties for any kind of threat
  • Adapted metallurgical properties according to specific requirements (chemical composition, hardness range, thickness range…)
  • Excellent homogeneity and reproducibility