Defense : Our military equipment
In the defense sector, the inflatable is being called on more and more for its benefits in terms of lightness, transportability and ease of assembly. Michelin Inflatable Solutions develops innovative inflatable products to help this sector in its major challenge of intervening in remote and differing operational theatres that compel the armed forces to review their logistics and equipment.
This demanding sector needs light, multipurpose infrastructures that can be deployed quickly in the field. These solutions also contribute to deceiving adversaries, in order to better hide strategic vehicles and reconsider communications, military emergencies and personnel protection.
Equipment tested in field conditions
Tested in collaboration with the STAT (French army’s technical division), our first large drone cage has remained in situ outdoors for over 6 months, subjected to every weather condition in the Parisian region (temperature variance, rain, wind, snow and hail).
The most demanding customers, such as the CEA, trust us to design, develop, manufacture, and deliver their custom-made products.
Our solutions allow our customers to obtain high gains with robust, ultra-light and ultra-compact uses, equipped with technical materials (EMC, absorbent fabrics, reduction in multi-spectral signature, heating fabrics, etc.).
Our ultra-light inflatable structures with tailored performances are the perfect OPEX tools. They afford reduced logistics as we design them to be carried and assembled by two people in a short timeframe (i.e.: 15 minutes for 25 m²). Their unequalled reduced volumes allow for transporting them in light, land vehicles, aircraft, boats, and ships.
Our products can accumulate several functions in the same support, which allow, for example, for creating a Tempest cage that protects from the weather and isolates strategic communications. A third function, such as insulation, can also be envisaged.
All our solutions are designed and developed for our customers’ specific requirements. They adapt to their products and their environments. As our products can be deployed quickly and anywhere, it is a real plus for handling, transport, and use; the solution comes from the product and not the other way round. This is a real benefit for the environment, particularly in terms of reducing CO² emissions.
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