BR-Shield

Bullet resistant systems

BR6 and FB6 bullet resistant systems in cold-rolled steel — a door system, a fixed partition system or a cap curtain wall facade, with glass in the system. Trialled at TBRL Chandigarh and NFSU Gandhinagar.

BR6FB6

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No section drawing is published for this range. The best source available is a 1080 × 300 image carrying eight sections at about two pixels per millimetre — a 1.5 mm steel wall is three pixels — and wall thickness, screw ports and gasket seats are exactly what a consultant reads a section for. A DWG or a native-scale PDF is what this slot is waiting for.

846–860m/s

Velocity achieved at NFSU

820–840m/s

EN 1063 BR6 velocity band

Shots, no perforation

Steel systems made by Firetec. The frame is specified together with the glass it holds, rather than assembled from whatever is available.

BR-Shield is a bullet resistant system: a cold-rolled steel frame with glass in it, rather than glass sold on its own. That is the whole point. A pane that stops a round and a frame that lets it out of the opening are the same failure, and the frame is where bullet resistant glazing is most often specified badly. Firetec makes the steel.

The range is built as three systems on one steel system — a door system, a fixed partition system, and a cap curtain wall facade — with splintering and non-splintering glass options. It is made in India, which for a product this heavy is a delivery argument as much as a cost one.

TBRL Chandigarh, a DRDO laboratory · NFSU Gandhinagar, Ballistic Research Centre, ISO 9001:2015

Both laboratories fired at BR-Shield and neither perforated it, at velocities of 846 to 860 m/s — above the EN 1063 BR6 band. Both reports record the standard as EN 1522 FB6 and EN 1063 BR6 with partial compliance, which is why this page says “tested to” and not “certified”. That is what the documents say.

The reports are restricted, so no scan, shot table or per-shot velocity list is shown. What is stated is the outcome.

The corner of a thick multi-ply laminated glass panel held in a dark steel frame, the exposed edge showing the stack of glass plies and the interlayers between them.

EN 1063 · BR2–BR7

The threat levels, and where this system sits

Pick a level to see the round, the velocity band and the weapon class it is defined against. The thickness column is flagged throughout: EN 1063 specifies a threat and a velocity, not a glass thickness, and Firetec’s published figures for that column are not internally consistent.

Handgun

The commonest handgun round in the world. This is the level most retail and reception counters are specified at.

Threat definition for BR2
Ammunition	9 × 19 mm	EN 1063
Projectile	Full metal jacket, soft core, 8.0 g	EN 1063
Velocity band	390–410 m/s	EN 1063

Revolver

A heavier handgun round at a similar velocity. Cash handling and teller lines are commonly specified here.

Threat definition for BR3
Ammunition	.357 Magnum	EN 1063
Projectile	Full metal jacket, cone, soft core, 10.2 g	EN 1063
Velocity band	420–440 m/s	EN 1063

Revolver

The heaviest handgun threat in the standard, and the top of the pistol range before rifle levels begin.

Threat definition for BR4
Ammunition	.44 Remington Magnum	EN 1063
Projectile	Full metal jacket, flat nose, soft core, 15.6 g	EN 1063
Velocity band	430–450 m/s	EN 1063

Assault rifle

The first rifle level. More than twice the velocity of BR4 on a fraction of the mass — a different failure mechanism, not a harder version of the same one.

Threat definition for BR5
Ammunition	5.56 × 45 mm	EN 1063
Projectile	Full metal jacket, pointed, soft core with steel penetrator, 4.0 g	EN 1063
Velocity band	940–970 m/s	EN 1063

Battle rifle

The level BR-Shield has been trialled at, at two laboratories. This is where the section below picks up.

Threat definition for BR6
Ammunition	7.62 × 51 mm	EN 1063
Projectile	Full metal jacket, pointed, soft core, 9.5 g	EN 1063
Velocity band	820–840 m/s	EN 1063

Battle rifle, hard core

Same round and same velocity band as BR6; what changes is a hardened steel core. The published thickness roughly doubles.

Threat definition for BR7
Ammunition	7.62 × 51 mm	EN 1063
Projectile	Full metal jacket, pointed, hard steel core, 9.8 g	EN 1063
Velocity band	820–840 m/s	EN 1063

Where BR-Shield sits against BR6

EN 1063 defines BR6 as 7.62 × 51 mm at 820 to 840 metres per second. At the NFSU Ballistic Research Centre, BR-Shield was shot at 846 to 860 metres per second — above the band the standard sets, on every one of six shots — and none of them perforated it. At TBRL Chandigarh, a DRDO laboratory, six more shots at the top of the band gave the same result.

That is a stronger statement than “certified”, and unlike “certified” it is one both reports actually support: each records the standard as partial compliance. Neither report is reproduced here in any form, which is why this section states an outcome and prints no figures from either document.

After the trial

What twelve rounds of 7.62 × 51 leave behind

Photography from the ballistic trials.

The firing side of a bullet resistant panel after a trial: five numbered impact craters, each ringed by a star of radial cracking, the pane otherwise whole.

Specification

What the reports record

Every row names its source. Where the reports, the catalogue and the previous website disagree, this table prints every candidate value and flags the row rather than picking one.

Specification for Bullet resistant systems
Tested to	EN 1063 BR6orEN 1522 FB6	TBRL and NFSU
Velocity	846–860 m/s	NFSU
Ammunition	7.62 × 51 mm	TBRL and NFSU
Result	Six shots at each laboratory, no perforation	TBRL and NFSU
Material	Cold-rolled steel system, with laminated glass in the system	Firetec
Options	Splintering (S) and non-splintering (NS)	Firetec
Applications	Door system · fixed partition system · cap curtain wall facade system	Firetec
Laboratory	TBRL Chandigarh is a DRDO laboratory; NFSU BRCTR is ISO 9001:2015	Reports