Products & Capabilities
Armour & Protection
Ballistic, blast and mine protection for vehicles, aircraft, naval platforms and shelters.
ENGINEERED SURVIVABILITY
Protection engineered around your platform.
DEW Engineering delivers comprehensive ballistic, blast, mine, and specialty armour systems engineered to protect personnel, vehicles, aircraft, and mission-critical infrastructure across today’s evolving threat environments.
Engineering, integration and testing
Our advanced composite and integrated armour solutions are designed to deliver lightweight, mission-specific protection across land, air, and sea, addressing kinetic, blast, and fragmentation threats while helping preserve mobility, payload, and platform performance. These systems can be deployed as standalone kits, integrated during vehicle production, or incorporated into naval, aviation, and shelter platforms, supporting adaptable protection for defined operational requirements.
Backed by deep expertise in survivability engineering, DEW Engineering develops armour systems that help platforms endure attack, preserve mission capability, and protect crews across vehicle, aircraft, naval, and shelter applications.
Land platforms
Vehicle armour
Enhanced Protection for New & Legacy Platforms
Our add-on armour systems mount directly onto vehicle hulls, giving armed forces the flexibility to increase survivability without redesigning the base platform.
Ballistic / Kinetic Armour
Designed to defeat high-energy penetrators such as heavy machine gun and cannon rounds. Add-on ballistic kits are typically aligned with STANAG protection levels and provide multi-layered stopping capability for medium and large-calibre threats.
Mine Protection
Engineered to mitigate explosive forces encountered when a vehicle passes over anti-vehicle or anti-personnel mines. These solutions focus on:
- Blast energy attenuation
- Fragment capture
- Protection from cone-shaped dispersal patterns generated during detonation
Blast / IED Protection
Add-on blast armour reduces damage and injury resulting from roadside bombs, VBIEDs, and offset explosive threats. These systems combat:
- Lateral blast waves
- Overpressure
- High-speed fragmentation
Together, these modular armour systems can be scaled and combined to meet customer threat assessments while maintaining mobility and vehicle performance.
Crew protection
Spall liners
Internal Protection for Crew Survivability
Spall liners are installed inside the vehicle to capture high-velocity fragments generated when external armour stops a projectile. Even successful armour defeats can create dangerous internal spall.
Benefits and integration
Spall liners deliver:
- Fragment mitigation from hull deformation
- Increased survivability in confined crew spaces
- Overmatch threat reduction, narrowing the fragmentation cone from shaped-charge jets
- Retrofit capability for existing fleets
Lightweight and effective, composite spall liners provide critical secondary protection that complements external armour systems while helping manage overall vehicle weight.
OEM integration
Integrated vehicle armour
Protection Engineered Into the Vehicle From Day One
Integrated armour solutions are developed directly with OEM partners and are built into the vehicle during manufacturing. By incorporating advanced composite armour into the vehicle structure from the outset, this approach optimizes weight distribution, enhances structural performance, and addresses specified threat requirements while balancing design, mobility and payload.
Benefits and integration
Features include:
- Built-in ballistic, blast, and mine protection
- Advanced composite armour layers bonded to the vehicle hull
- Improved strength-to-weight performance
- Turnkey integration services
DEW Engineering supports full lifecycle integration—design, manufacture, and installation.
Maritime platforms
Naval protection
Tailored Protection for Ships & Maritime Systems
Naval armour requirements differ from land systems and focus on crew safety, containment, and mission continuity.
Shipboard Ballistic Protection
For bridges, crew stations, and exposed weapon positions, armour shields personnel from small arms fire and shrapnel during close-range maritime engagements.
Weapons Lockers & Armories
Containment armour prevents accidental discharge events from spreading inside the ship. These armour systems are designed to trap fragments internally rather than stop threats from outside.
Missile Silos
Specialized armour minimizes the risk of catastrophic damage in the event of internal malfunction by containing high-velocity fragments within the silo enclosure.
Citadels
A citadel is a fortified safe room built into the vessel or delivered as a standalone armoured container. These structures provide:
- Ballistic protection
- Mechanical breach resistance
- A secured fallback point during boarding or crisis events
Fixed and rotary wing
Aircraft protection
Lightweight Protection for Airborne Operations
Aviation platforms require precise, weight-optimized armour solutions, making advanced composites a critical part of aircraft survivability. Protection is targeted to vital areas where it has the greatest impact on crew survival while minimizing weight penalties and preserving mission performance.
Fixed-Wing Aircraft
Protection may include:
- Underside cockpit armour
- Side panels
- Armoured pilot seats
Levels are defined by specific weight allocations and mission profiles, for example, ground-attack vs. high-altitude transport.
Rotary-Wing Aircraft
Helicopters often receive:
- Floor armour against ground fire
- Armoured seating for pilots and crew
- Tailored composite solutions
Ceramic composites—such as boron carbide—are frequently used for their exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, enabling lightweight ballistic protection for demanding air platform requirements.
Deployable infrastructure
Armoured shelters
Deployable Protection for People and Assets
Armoured shelters can be designed from the ground up or created by upgrading existing containerized structures. Whether built from scratch or retrofitted, each shelter is engineered with integrated ballistic and blast‑mitigation features that safeguard troops during forward‑deployed operations, ensuring critical personnel remain protected even in high‑threat environments.
Purpose-Built Armoured Shelters
Custom-engineered to meet ballistic and blast requirements, applications include:
- Command & control modules
- Communications hubs
- Drone launch & recovery operations
- Mobile operations centers
These shelters integrate power, HVAC, IT, and mission-specific systems and are designed to protect deployed personnel in high‑threat environments.
Retrofit Armoured Containers
Standard ISO containers can be enhanced with:
- External armour panels
- Internal spall liners
- Structural reinforcement
- Ballistic windows and doors
Retrofits provide a cost-effective path to rapidly deploy protected infrastructure.
ORIGINAL PLATFORM PHOTOGRAPHY
Protection across wheeled and tracked platforms
Original platform photographs. Select a photograph to enlarge it.
Discuss your platform and mission requirements
Work with DEW’s engineering team to define the protection, integration and support your program requires.
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