KF Armory, LLC, exhibited their Modular Interlocking Ballistic Barrier System (MIB²S) at the USASOC 9th Annual International Sniper Competition. We should do a preview earlier in the week, but there are a lot of questions about what the system looks like.
Essentially, they are ballistic building blocks Which defeat up to .50 BMG Armor Piercing Incendiary Tracer (APIT) and in recent Department of Defense testing successfully stopped multiple MK 211 .50 Caliber Raufoss rounds and multiple RPG-7 HE Fragmentary rounds. You can configure them in any number of ways and as they lock together freestanding, rather than using a cement, can be easily reconfigured in order to use them in other ways, or to replace destroyed blocks.
What’s the R-value?
Building a house?
I was thinking the same thing
Twenty years ago, we suggested something like this for logistics–Configure all consumable packing boxes and crates such that you could either fill them with local dirt or do a pre-mix concrete that could be mixed and filled on-site. With the packing boxes already being in the logistics stream, this would save massive amounts of time and energy that gets spent dealing with the disposal issue, and would allow you to get more into theater for your logistics buck.
Unfortunately, nobody was interested. One of these days, someone will see the sense–Integrate the whole thing with the pallets we’re already sending in, and you’ve got tons of now-useful construction materials instead of a huge waste pile you need to burn.
Interesting idea, do you mean instead of hesco’s? Or more like a proper construction material?
Basically, everything that could be adapted. Ammo shipping.crates, ration boxes, pallets, all of it. The idea was to reduce the waste generated from packaging to the bare minimum, and to make every ounce shipped in-theater useful. We already do things like use pallets for flooring in tents, and this idea was just to maximize the concept and make it official.
Not to mention, if the shipping boxes on the pallets interlocked in the first place, you wouldn’t need to put as much into wrapping the pallet.