- It is the India’s lightest and cheapest ‘bullet-proof jacket’ fortheCRPF and the Ministry of Home Affairs personnel.
- It is indigenously developed by the Ordnance Factories Board, a public sector undertaking MIDHANI along with BARC.
- It is named after nuclear physicist Dr. Homi J. Bhabha.
- The jacket weighs just 6.6 kg in comparison to the 17-kg jackets in use.
- It can shield from AK-47 (7.62 mm hard steel bullets), SLR and INSAS (5.56 mm) weaponry.
- It is made using extremely hard boron carbide ceramics, carbon nano-tubes and composite polymer.
- BARC has transferred the technology to Mishra Dhatu Nigam, Hyderabad, for its large-scale production.
Bhabha Kavach
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