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In concurrence with market demands, APV will be offering two levels of armouring in the 100/105 range of platforms.

The B4+ level caters for protection against hand-guns and the Kalashnikov AK47 with a standard soft bullet. The B6 level, defeats the FAL with the 7.62 x 51 rifle with the pointed bullet and the very common AK47 with the steel core bullet.

The APV protection includes an all-over transparent / opaque cage shielding the driver and passenger seats together with the luggage area. This is prepared with the best quality materials and fabricated by skilled technicians. This protection is to European B6 level and is certified to defeat the following ammunition:

· 7.62 x 51 RG L2A2 at 843 m/s
· 7.62 x 39 PS 1943 ball at 709 m/s
· 5.56 x 45 RG L2A2 at 931 m/s
· FNB SS109 at 942 m/s
· and lesser threats

The armour addition will also offer blast protection against a double, simultaneous, under-body DM50 grenade attack. Certificates detailing the ballistic defeat potential of protection materials used can be supplied with the product on delivery.

Experience gained in the building of the prototype, from stripping-down and designing the overall protection and then the subsequent analysis of individual component areas, has pinpointed the following as being important design features which APV is incorporating in all their products.

· Full steel coverage over the floor pan / transmission tunnel, offering ballistic and blast protection as well as completing the full cage stiffening-and-protection structure.

· Additional protection underneath door sill areas.

· Significant overlaps also between opaque / transparent interfaces, with minimum separation in the common plane.

· Additional armoured steel angle plates throughout majority of door aperture lips, to protect against compound trajectories.

· Additional protection in the leading and trailing edges of the door apertures and within ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ pillars, to maximise the integrity concept.

· Minimisation of fasteners that are present in any of the protection plating without the protection of a backing plate to avoid the risk of secondary projectiles.

· Roof protection to B4 level.

· Fuel tank protection.

· Inclusion of armoured steel boxes over unavoidable apertures in firewall protection, to maintain high level of protection integrity.

· Protection of the main engine battery, including additional protection for the electronic control unit and the fuel filter bowls.

· Up-rated, developed hinges.

· Weight addition on doors to be an integral structure with the weight-bearing hinge-plate.

· Positioning of armour plate on door close to outer skin.

· Up-rated suspension components, including thorough reinforcing of the original suspension mountings.

· Full, protected, access to components requiring maintenance, e.g. locks, handles, hinges, seat-belts and etc.



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For a protection that sacrifices nothing as far as the driver / passengers are concerned, but yet minimises on weight and cost, there is the option of fitting a rear armoured bulkhead just behind the second row of seats. This bulkhead is totally integrated into the remaining protection box, with the same attention to detail given to overlaps, trajectories, etc, thereby providing the occupants with the same security.

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