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The America-Israel Chamber of Commerce (Florida office) is happy
to announce a deal between Armor Systems International, Inc. of
Vancouver, Washington and M. Paz Logistics Ltd. of Kfar Saba, Israel....
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The majority of our 100,000 troops
in Iraq now ride in 10,000 vulnerable unarmored and quasi-armored
3-6 ton HMMWV "Humvee" rubber-tired trucks,
that fail to protect them from roadside bombs (IEDs), RPGs, or mob
violence. This is the same error we made in Solmalia, ...
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ELLENVILLE -- An Army sergeant from Ulster County is credited with
helping to retrofit Humvees in Afghanistan with special lightweight
armor. Sgt. Carlos Acevedo of Ellenville was part of a team of Army
mechanics that helped Armor Systems International install ''peel
and stick'' protection, a company spokeswoman said. The company
is based in Vancover, Wash...more
A month in the combat zones of Afghanistan showed Jay Rose and Cliff
Luebbert that American soldiers are an ingenious bunch. Rose and
Luebbert, executives with Vancouver-based Armor Systems International,
watched troops fill unarmored Humvees, which have a weight limit
of 2,400 pounds, with 5,000 pounds of sandbags, drape Kevlar blankets
over doors and build a shield using ceramic body armor. Rose, a
West Point graduate with 25 years of military experience, said the
efforts gave the men nothing but a sense of security. Real protection
came from 15 armor kits ASI shipped to the military theater for
testing...more
An Afghanistan sandstorm obscured his view, Jay Rose recalled,
but he was confident his product would prove bulletproof. The sandstorm
cleared, the Army marksman took aim and Rose was correct. Thirty
rounds from an M16 assault rife had not pierced a sample panel of
the Aztik 100 Peel & Stick Instant Armoring System ...more
Vancouver company will see firsthand how its peel-and-stick armor
system performs under live military conditions when approximately
20 U.S. Army Humvees are outfitted with the material and then sent
out on patrol in Afghanistan. Subscribe to The Columbian Contact
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A Vancouver, Wash.-based company is supplying Humvee armor kits
for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. The Army Humvees will be the first
military vehicles outfitted with a peel-and-stick armoring system
manufactured by Armor Systems International. ASI representatives
are now at a U.S. military base, where they will load 15 Aztik 100
armor kits onto a cargo plane bound for troops in Kandahar ...more
A few local companies could see bottom-line benefit from U.S. war
efforts, a longstanding Washington tradition aided by the political
clout of U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., and others. Dicks, who serves
on the House Defense Subcommittee, toured three local firms involved
in defense design and manufacturing work during a visit to Vancouver
with U.S. Rep. Brian Baird, D-Wash., last month. Dicks is "influential,"
said Baird, who brought the senior Congressman along as part of
Baird’s re-election campaign tour ...more
Armor Systems International uses a combination of multi-layer fabrics
and adhesives, formed into flexible or rigid panels, providing protection
up to level IV... more
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