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Hardwire is Evolving into Capabilities for Economical Composite Armor.

Advanced Materials & Composites News, July, 2004

Hardwire, LLC has targeted low-cost composite armor as one of its new strategic initiatives. Following 12 months of extensive research, working closely with the Army Research Lab, Hardwire has conceived a set of its wire products specifically intended for the reinforcement of low-cost armor.

"Armor for the masses," says George C. Tunis III, founder and president. Hardwire-based armor is intended for applications that need the weight reductions possible with composite armor systems, and at a fraction of the cost of many of today's baseline products. Hardwire fiber reinforced composite armor is low in cost like steel plate but it can be as much as two orders of magnitude lower in cost than traditional advanced fiber composite armor (in one estimate, as low as...

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