Military Applications - Articles & Testimonials

Waco Composites is proud to be a part of on-going efforts to provide protection to those who are in the line of fire. ArmorCore panels have been used in a variety of military applications to help stop the threats of various caliber bullets, blast over-pressures, and shrapnel from explosive devices. Articles are available below relevant to some of the projects where ArmorCore has been used.

Some Military Applications include:
- Shoot Houses and Training Facilities
- Guard Shacks and military base entrances
- Drone Aircraft Maintenance facility
- Up-armoring Humvees and other vehicles (protection against small arms fire and IEDs)
- LLNL 5-Ton Gun Truck ("Hunter Box") (protection against small arms fire and IEDs)
- Mortar protection in Dining Halls and military housing
- Portable Armoring systems for troops to configure in vehicles and sleeping quarters
- Up-Armoring Chinook 47 Helicopters
- Up-Armoring of small surveillance aircraft

Up-Armored "Gun Trucks" Save Servicemembers Lives In Iraq

By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2005 - New 5-ton armored "gun trucks" fielded in Iraq are providing U.S. troops with effective protection against insurgents' improvised explosive devices and small-arms fire, a senior military researcher said today on Capitol Hill.

Currently, "there are 31 5-ton gun trucks in Iraq, and they are saving lives," Steven J. DeTeresa, an engineer from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., told members of the House Armed Services Committee.
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Lab scientists help shield soldiers from attack

Livermore-designed kit for Iraq converts standard vehicles into armored weapons carriers

Ian Hoffman
Tri-Valley Herald
July 22, 2005

When the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee comes knocking, government labs jump to deliver - in this case, resurrecting Vietnam War-era gun trucks for Iraq.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Alpine, asked Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where his brother John once worked, to dream up new ways to protect soldiers in Iraq as the insurgency grew in late 2003.
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Livermore lab's armor kits earn good review from troops

Betsy Mason
Valley Times
July 22, 2005

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, who have developed a new brand of gun truck armor, are being credited with saving lives of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

One of the newly fitted trucks was shown off Thursday in Washington, D.C., where Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee praised the lab's "great talented folks" for protecting seven soldiers whose truck was hit near Fallujah in March.
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Livermore scientist Steve DeTeresa interviewed about Gun-Truck project

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