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Lockheed Developing Lighter ‘Kinetic Energy’ Armor

Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) won a $1.5 million contract from the U.S. Army Applied Aviation Technology Directorate that continues development of the Kinetic Energy Net (KEN) armor design.

According to Lockheed, KEN is a modular composite armor system developed by Lockheed Martin that is lighter than current aircraft armor, but offers comparable protection.

“Kinetic Energy Net is a new direction in armor that doesn’t trade weight for strength, ” said Glenn Miller, vice president of Technical Operations and Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. “Aircrews operate in some of the most exposed places on the battlefield, but due to weight constraints users don’t have as much armor protection as they’d like. We developed KEN armor so it can also be integrated directly into the aircraft structure instead of attaching plates to the fuselage, which adds weight.”

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