About Us: The Cooneen Group consists of four businesses: • supply's combat and operational clothing to Air forces COONEEN GROUP Military and Police forces throughout the globe including About Us: the UK Ministry of Defence. • provides body armour and related public order equipment to Police and Military Forces on a world-wide basis. • specialists in the provision of a complete managed service to all business sectors. • supplies character nightwear to many leading street retailers in the UK.
Facts & Figures: Offices in Northern Ireland, England, India, Bangladesh, China, COONEEN GROUP Cambodia and the United Facts & Figures: States £70+ million Group 50 + years experience in turnover clothing Deliver’s over 13+ million garments annually Warehouse 130,000 sq. ft. Over 100% 200+ e mployees growth over the worldwide last 3 years
Trusted By… Supplying Clothing Systems to Military & Police Forces across the Globe: Norway Norwegian Police Norwegian Army America Sweden United States Denmark Swedish Defence Marine Corps Danish Defence Forces Forces US Army UK Belgium UK Ministry of Defence Belgium Federal Kuwait Transport for London Police Kuwait Ministry Metropolitan Police of Interiors 30 +UK Police Forces Saudi 6 UK Managed Service Police Contracts Jamaica BTP British Transport Police Arabia Environment Agency Police Saudi Arabian Ministry of Justice and Correctional Royal Navy Border Force Arriva Singapore DHL Singapore Gurkha Australia Australia New Defence Forces Zealand New Zealand Defence Forces
Cooneen Defence… • We have how established a international military customer COONEEN DEFENCE base providing design, supply and after a service support base developed an international reputation for the design and supply of military clothing. We are the largest supplier of a range of operational and • combat clothing to the UK MOD and are tasked with market research, product development, material testing/selection and field trial technical support. Designed and Supplied the new RAF Future Aircrew • Clothing System for Rotary Wing and Transport Aircrew • Supply FMV with their Flight Jacket and Trousers
COONEEN GROUP UK MOD Supply: • Design, manufacture and supply of operational garments to the UK MOD since 2004. Supplying Army, Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. • The annual distribution is over 3 million items across 350 different products to the MOD. • Also supply to Militaries across the world including Norway, Sweden, Singapore • Expertise of distribution to multiple locations worldwide including direct to bases in Afghanistan for the US Marines. Development: • 153 currently special development tasks completed. • Designed 3 full clothing systems – Personal Clothing System (PCS), Future Air Clothing System (FACS), Royal Navy Personal Clothing System (RN PCS)
Cooneen Protection… For over a decade, Cooneen Protection has pioneered • innovation in the design and manufacture of body COONEEN PROTECTION armour including the pelvic protection system in service with the UK MOD (plus 16 other allied countries) • Cooneen Protection designed, and supplied the Anatomical Hard Armour Insert to Survitec for incorporation in its Mk 60/61 Lifepreserver • In partnership with Craig International Ballistics we are developing a range of lightweight hard armour plates which have enhanced multi-hit and edge performance in support of a number of large military projects.
Customers include; Military: COONEEN GROUP • New Zealand Defence Force Customer Base • UK MOD, British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force Australian Defence Force • • Danish Defence Force Swedish Defence Forces • Norwegian Army • • United States Marine Corps US Army • • Saudi Arabian Royal Navy Singapore Gurkha Contingent •
System Approach-Providing operational flexibility • Scalable Protection System Threat • More specific threats not just Ballistic NIJ IV! • Generally highest threat as per current in service level • Secondary Level lower in region of AK47 MSC Obviously always linked to own forces • weaponry/ammunition • What is the correct threat? High velocity rifle or fragmentation?
Plate Design: • Size Range up to 5 sizes Plate Design • Evolving new shapes with computerised analysis Weight reduction: area of cover vs survivability • Use of mixes of ceramics in the tile construction • e.g. Boron , Silicon carbide mixes dependent on the threat. • Same shape front and back- HFI effect More effective use of the overall plate- improved • edge shot performance • Reduced thickness Stand Alone? •
Product Performance Verification T esting: • Should be integral part of the initial contract Product Performance V50 testing found to be more meaningful • Verification T esting Surrogate vs Factory ammunition • • X raying • Ultrasonic Monitoring KEY: PASS/FAIL Criteria • More work needed! •
Automatic X Ray
Over Protect? Over Protect
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