MODULAR ARMORED TACTICAL COMBAT HOUSE - Action Target

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CONSTRUCTION
DESIGN
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AT 22 sepArATe poInTs.
Using the proper through-hardened 500+ Brinell armor steel
is critically important as we have discussed, but it is just the
first step. A shoothouse must be properly engineered and
assembled as well. Even the best steel can’t compensate
for poorly designed joints, shortcuts on quality, and other
fundamental construction issues.
It is universally accepted that the more realistic your training
environment is, the more effective your training will be.
Nevertheless, distorted shoothouses with walls that are 2 or 3
feet thick are still being built out of tires, railroad ties, rubber
blocks, or concrete. Because walls in a typical residential or
commercial structure are only about 6 inches thick, the walls
of MATCH are 6 inches thick as well. Realistic construction
like this means that the tactics and techniques learned by
your trainees will be directly applicable to their real world
missions.
We all know that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
The same can be said for a ballistic shoothouse. If the steel
plates used for the walls are strong but the joints used to
connect the plates are weak, you have a weak shoothouse.
For a joint to maintain the ballistic integrity of the wall, it must
meet four important criteria.
1. The joint strip material must be made of the same throughhardened,
500+ Brinell armor steel as the walls.
2. There must be a steel joint strip on both sides of the wall.
3. There must be enough bolt-through points to prevent bullet
fragments from escaping.
4. No wood, rubber, or other soft material can serve as a
support point. Steel must be bolted to steel.
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