{"id":172439,"date":"2025-05-28T13:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=172439"},"modified":"2025-05-31T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T05:16:52","slug":"bhabha-kavach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/bhabha-kavach\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhabha Kavach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>India&#8217;s lightest and cheapest bullet proof jacket &#8216;Bhabha Kavach&#8217; was shown at 2019&#8217;s International Police Expo at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The expo was organized by Nexgen Exhibitions (Asia&#8217;s leading and established trade fair, exhibition and conference organizer).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The jacket weighs only 6.6 kg (compared to traditional jackets that weigh about 17-kg).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Production and Development<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bhabha Kavach was developed indigenously by Defence organizations like Ordnance Factory Board and Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (MIDHANI) with the transfer of carbon-nanomaterial technology from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC).<br>o MIDHANI is a (public sector undertaking) specialized metals and metal alloys manufacturing facility in India, based in Hyderabad, Telangana.<br>o Ordnance Factory Board is an industrial organization under the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence (headquartered in Kolkata).<br>Manufacturing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bhabha Kavach is made from layers of high-density, high-tenacity polyethylene, which were fused through high temperature to form a thick, hard armour plate, which was sprayed with BARC&#8217;s carbon nanomaterial.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The jacket&#8217;s materials are boron carbide (hard ceramics), carbon nano-tubes, and composite polymer (a polymer made from two or more types of polymer).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s lightest and cheapest bullet proof jacket &#8216;Bhabha Kavach&#8217; was shown at 2019&#8217;s International Police Expo at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. Production and Development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":172440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5369],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172441,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172439\/revisions\/172441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}