SVI Engineering, leading specialist manufacturer of armoured products, has released the fourteenth and final episode in Season One of its innovative Shoot Through series of videos, this time demonstrating how a 40 mm thick pane of specialist ballistic glass is able to stop an AK47 round (see Episode 14 here).
“In the previous episode, we saw that five Toyota Hilux side windows were no match for an AK47 round. So, what sort of glass can handle fire from this ubiquitous assault rifle? Time to demonstrate the strength and ingenuity of our B6-rated 40 mm ballistic glass,” said Nicol Louw, SVI Business Development Director.
So, SVI secured the bullet-resistant glass pane at the far end of its dedicated underground shooting range before unleashing a round from an AK47 mounted in a test rig. As shown in the footage captured by a Photron Fastcam SA4 high-speed camera – generously supplied by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and set at 30 000 frames per second – the 7.62×39 mm conventional steel-core round is stopped in its tracks by the multi-layer sample.
“This is the bullet-resistant glass we use in our popular B6 Stopgun V2.0 armouring packages. It consists of multiple layers of carefully laminated glass and engineering plastics. When a bullet impacts the outermost layer, the softer layers underneath absorb and spread the energy, ultimately stopping the projectile from entering the vehicle,” explained Jaco de Kock, CEO of SVI.
