AST Security Equipment, a Germany-based engineering firm, has won a contract for armouring 17 medium transport CH-53 helicopters from a NATO-member. The armour is designed to deal with the actual threat that NATO has in its mission area. The area that will be protected is approximately 50m² in hard ballistic and approximately 30m² in soft ballistic for each helicopter.
The CH-53 was developed by Sikorsky in the beginning of the 1960s as the S-65. Approximately 950 CH-53 helicopters were build, of which 600 are still in service.
Speaking about the occasion AST’s official spoke…