Indian Major has been Awarded for Developing Bullet Proof Jacket ‘Sarvatra Kavach’

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Major Anoop Mishra has been awarded Army Design Bureau Excellence Award by the Army Chief, on 23 December 2019 for indigenously developing ‘Sarvatra Kavach’ bulletproof jacket. The jacket made by Anoop Mishra can provide protection from sniper rifle bullets. It provides protection from neck to ankle and upper arms. The project was sanctioned in June 2017 and initially the design and development of a Level IIIA soft body armour suit was sanctioned and was subsequently revised to include a Level IV hard armour panel inserts. The ADB was set up to liaise with the industry and the academia and develop indigenous solutions for the Army. The project was launched after there was an increase in the number of sniper incidents in the lines on Line of Control (LoC) and Kashmir valley. Earlier in October, the Indian Army was supplied 40,000 indigenous bulletproof jackets for its troops carrying out anti-terror operations in the Kashmir valley. These bulletproof jackets can withstand hardcore steel ammunition fired from an AK-47 rifle.

The armed forces had also placed a request for two lakh ‘Bhabha Kavach’ bullet-proof jackets’ with Ordnance Factory Board during August 2019. ‘Bhabha Kavach’ bullet-proof jackets are the lightest bullet proof jacket used by Indian army. The jacket has been named ‘Bhabha Kavach’ as the nano-based technology was taken from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre. Army personnel informed that the jackets were ordered by several police forces across the nation including Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

Defense and security experts believed that the bulletproof jacket will boost the morale of the armed forces while ensuring greater security especially for those dealing in counter-insurgency and militancy operations. The new ‘Sarvatra Kavach’ bulletproof jacket will also help the army to fearlessly retaliate the increasing terror attacks in the region of Jammu and Kashmir.

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