RANGER has been designed from its inception to provide a very high degree of crew protection from both conventional and asymmetric threats.

Whilst most such patrol vehicle designs strive to achieve STANAG 4569 Level 4 protection, RANGER takes this as its baseline and start point.

The heart of the design centres upon an advanced, hardened steel monocoque crew safe ‘survivability’ capsule.

During extensive trials, the capsule has been subjected to multiple detonations of military grade high explosives directly under the hull and it has survived with inferior (vertical) accelerations inflicted upon the occupants which are well below those known to cause significant injury.

This survivability solution includes:

• a. A ‘V’ shaped hull.
• b. An armoured belly plate
• c. A floating floor
• d. An energy absorbing, suspended crew seating system which is designed to be quick release in an emergency and the individual seats can then be used as a stretcher to evacuate casualties who are WIA
• e. An Integral spall lining
• f. A tuneable survivability solution with options including:
• 1. Passive Armour
• 2. Active or Reactive Armour (ERA)
• 3. Hard kill DAS solutions
• 4. All automotive components are fitted out with of this resilient hull. Only the steering column enters this capsule.

Results indicate the following overall net survivability package:

Ballistic	STANAG 4569 Level	Comment
ATMB	4b+	Far exceeds this standard significantly
Kinetic	4	Level 4+ with ERA fitted
CE (Shaped charge)	RPG	Pg7v/n/m with ERA fitted
IED	EFP from 80-120mm warhead	15
Overmatched threats	50-70%	Cone Surface Reduction