Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems Limited

Advanced Blast & Ballistic Systems (ABBS) Limited have identified vehicle platform requirements (with vehicle manufacturers and users) for active protection measures, that pre-load the vehicle under-belly (and reduce shock deformation of the floor) and also reduce jump height (through a downforce effector), in response to an under-body blast.Our single-co...

ABBS has developed an innovative linear rocket motor (LRM) that can respond rapidly and provide a short impulse proven to counter the global acceleration of a vehicle when it experiences a mine blast. In addition to armoured, casualty, VIP and de-mining vehicle protection, there are many other uses for the LRM including the crash mitigation of helicopters...

The defence market is seeking active mine protection systems with a potential market value of £21bn. ABBS has developed a widely patented linear rocket motor (LRM) and sensor system (AMPS™) that responds rapidly and is proven to counter the global acceleration of a vehicle subject to a mine blast. The LRM propellant is based on the widely-used composite f...

Whilst there is currently no effective response to landmines encountered by civilian vehicles operated by NGO’s engaged in mine clearance work, mine protected military vehicles are now heavily “up armoured” with “V” shaped hulls to divert the blast from the vehicle belly. Unfortunately up armouring presents logistical problems particularly for military ve...

The project is based upon the use of the Linear Rocket Motor technology developed under another TSB project to develop an Active Mine Protection System for armoured vehicles, intended to prevent the vehicle being blown into the air to protect the occupants from the high acceleration forces which would otherwise be experienced. The Linear Rocket motors dif...

ABBS has developed unique, patent-pending Linear Rocket Motor (LRM) technology which provides a remarkable combination of extreme performance characteristics which cannot be obtained with conventional rocket motor system designs, and therefore enables applications which have not previously been physically possible. The basis of the design is that the moto...

Following the end of the cold war and apart from the invasion of Iraq, the emphasis for armoured vehicles has changed from heavy armour such as main battle tanks (MBT) to highly manoeuvrable light and medium armoured vehicles (LAV’s and MAV’s) which have been and are being used in recent conflicts such as the Balkans and Afghanistan where speed and manoeu...