Integris ABDS™ represents a dramatic improvement over existing passive armor underbody protection systems (mine protection). ABDS is an active system that evaluates a threat and responds accordingly. It’s a cost-effective solution that is highly adaptive and scalable to a range of platforms and ever-increasing threats. ABDS is easily integrated or retrofitted onto existing vehicles and demands little power, weight, or space on already overburdened vehicles.
The Integris ABDS active blast countermeasure system can effectively mitigate the devastating effects of large IED blasts by defeating the acceleration of the vehicle and the vehicle structure. The transfer of blast energy to the occupants is managed to effectively reduce or eliminate destructive physical injuries.
Recent testing, completed on fully instrumented vehicles, successfully incorporated the Trigger and Activation System (TASprto), designed exclusively for the Integris ABDS™ active blast countermeasure system. Reacting to an authentic blast event, TAS provides a stable, secure, high speed, automated fire command to actuate the proprietary countermeasures and yield a precise programmed structural and biomechanical response mode.
Integris ABDS active blast countermeasure system acknowledges both STANAG 4569 AEP-55 Vol. 2 and specifications for larger country specific threats as well as the new STANAG 4569 at classified threat levels.
ABDS Sentinel X for Active Blast Mitigation effectively neutralizes the injurious and deadly effects of launch acceleration, violent flight, brutal slam down and post event ambush exposure by utilizing "recoil" to counter the forces generated by the blast. The injuries associated with launch, flight and slam-down never happen because ABDS prevents the launch from happening.
ABDS uses the "conservation of momentum," a fundamental property of physics, to achieve this achievement. The Integris System's ultra-fast, proprietary ABDS sensors are essential to its success because they can identify blast impulse forces and transmit vast amounts of high-quality data quickly enough to verify the veracity of a threat, compute a countermeasure, and command and control a counterreaction before the mounted crew is exposed to damaging blast impulse energy.
The ABDS Sentinel X system has the proven ability to enhance survivability on all blast resistant vehicle platforms by reducing the transfer of blast impulse energy to the occupants.
Full scale live-fire blast testing with instrumented Anthropomorphic Test Devices (ATDs) repeatedly confirms significantly improved (30-80%) threat protection in common human injury areas such as the lower extremities, lumbar, spine, neck, and head.
ABDS Sentinel X also enhances the performance of existing blast protection equipment such as energy absorbing flooring, seats and harnesses.