CoorsTek Armor Solutions designs and manufactures next-generation lightweight armor systems for market leading OEMs. Our armor systems successfully meet or exceed the highest NIJ and NATO protection and test standards and are made to exacting ISO 9001:2008 quality standards.
We offer the capacity to solve the challenges of armoring your current and future vehicles with our experienced team of armor engineers, military vehicle specialists, and production personnel. Our field service representatives support on-site vehicle integration – assisting in the development of prototypes and first-off vehicles as appropriate.
Our extensive experience in protecting against ballistic, mine-blast, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ensures superior, innovative solutions with a clear edge in lightweight performance. We offer the capacity, skills, and experience to provide large-scale production of your built-to-print designs.
The CoorsTek Armor Solutions strategy and philosophy of “give the customer what they need, on their schedule” includes the use of trusted partners and suppliers to expedite the delivery of the right protection against ever evolving and increasing threats. One-stop, extremely reliable shopping remains our goal – work with the people you trust.
Our success is based upon our unwavering commitment to our customers to deliver extremely high-quality, lightweight armor systems. CoorsTek Armor Solutions designs, tests, manufactures, and installs thousands of armor systems – including those that have protected soldiers in theatres such as the former Yugoslavia, Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
We have a wide range of products available for fleets including the General Dynamics Land Systems’ Stryker, LAV3, M113, PLS, Medium Logistics Vehicle Wheeled (including the US M35’s), Heavy Logistics Vehicle Wheeled—Steyr 10T, Oshkosh MTVR and AM General HMMWV.
Our armor solutions range from specialized steel to high-performance, lightweight ceramic composites and may include our own spall liner – specially designed to enhance complete vehicle protection. We can provide completely integrated systems meeting a wide range of threats, including all ballistic and mine blast levels of NATO STANAG 4569 Level IV and FRAG Level V.
Our specialty niche is ceramic composite armor – armor delivering better protection for considerably less weight. We are also constantly looking for the right strategic partners to ensure we can update and provide our extensive range of protection and survivability requirements.
Ground Vehicles:
CoorsTek Armor Solutions designs and develops ceramic composite armor for wheeled tactical vehicles to meet STANAG 4569 Level IV, FRAG Level V, and AEP 55 to Level IV.
Our armor also meets the US Army Long-Term Armor Strategy (LTAS) requirements – successfully completing all tests to date.
Aviation and Aerospace:
Especially important in aerospace and aviation markets, CoorsTek Armor Solutions provides exceptionally lightweight, high-performance ceramic ballistic protection options.
For decades, our parent company – CoorsTek Technical Ceramics – has built specialized ceramic components. Now, we offer the entire assembly and related services to provide next-generation armor solutions to leading OEMs like Boeing.
Marine:
Whether you are designing the latest high-speed military water craft or are reinforcing a trusted ship currently in service, we assist in the design, selection of materials, and all of the services and logistics required to get your armor system done right.
Besides having one of the best ceramic material development labs in the world, we partner with a number of trusted research organizationslike the Colorado School of Mines, Ceramatec, and the US Army Research Labs and have a multi-year, self-funded R&D program to develop next-generation armor materials, innovative designs for add-on or replaceable vehicle/craft systems, and consistently improve production processes.
CoorsTek Armor Solutions also carefully involves its strategic suppliers and partners in R&D efforts to ensure improvements are developed in all sub-system and component aspects of armor design and manufacture. This combination of experience, internal R&D, and strategic partners positions CoorsTek Armor Solutions to deliver superior, cost-effective solutions for our customers.
CoorsTek Armor Solutions provides a complete range of testing and approval services for armor systems including ballistic, mine blast, and IED testing. Our test range is able to test up to 25mm ammunition and is staffed by experienced weapons technicians.
CoorsTek Armor Solutions also maintains relationships with commercial explosive test facilities and government/military facilities for the testing of mine-blast and IED protection systems testing compliant with stringent NATO, NIJ, NLECTC, and other internationally recognized standards. Our testing and evaluation program is constantly fine tuned to enable rapid optimization of our vehicle/craft armor products.
CoorsTek Armor Solutions provides all of the support services required to make your program run smoothly from initial design consultations to program close strategies.
Dedicated Support Management Teams:
From the very start of the design process, specifying every single element required, selecting best-match materials, testing and qualifying samples, specifying delivery schedules, and everything in between, our dedicated teams ensure superior project management on every job. “We do what we say and say what we mean,” is simply part of our culture at CoorsTek Armor Solutions.
On-Site Resources:
Contacting CoorsTek Armor Solutions can be LESS than a phone call away. Depending upon your project parameters, our security-cleared field service personnel will assist with on-site vehicle integration, prototype development, and first-off vehicles or crafts as needed.
Spare Modules and Inventory Controls:
According to customer desires, we have a comprehensive inventory management system to keep and manage spare modules – ready to ship at a moment’s notice. We’ve met and exceeded ISO-class certifications to ensure we have what we say and can deliver on time.
