STANAG standards, which are NATO standardization agreements, determine the military standards of NATO member countries. The purpose of the STANAG 4569 standard published in this framework, explains the system qualification and acceptance process for determining the protection level of logistics and light armored vehicles. Threats to be considered are small and medium caliber kinetic energy ballistic projectiles and fragment simulation piercings representing fragments of artillery shells, as defined in that standard annex (Annex A1).
This process includes standard techniques and repeatable test methods for the required vehicle sensitive area assessment as well as the ballistic resistance of vehicle armor components. Mine protection qualification and acceptance tests are included in a separate annex (Annex D).
The ballistic methods described in this standardization agreement are equally applicable to ballistic tests on various target systems, including single target plates, fully engineered targets and vehicle targets. Ballistic tests are performed under the impact conditions described in the annex of the standard with the specified threat ammunition. These tests should be performed in a test range approved in legal regulations.
Classifying the logistics vehicle or lightly armored vehicles according to certain protection levels is based on establishing relevant areas of the vehicle armor system that either meet or fail the specified ballistic threat level protection requirements. From these values, the vulnerable sensitive area is calculated according to the minimum requirement of 90 percent vehicle area protection coverage specified in STANAG.
The acceptance process used to establish the protection level of a defined vehicle protection system consists of four consecutive stages:
Each stage is described in more detail within the STANAG 4569 standard, with additional information provided to clarify the evaluation process.
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