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Zircotec provides heat management products to the UK defence industry

12th January 2010

As the UK increases its military presence in Afghanistan, the need for innovative solutions to help protect military personnel and equipment in harsh environments is increasingly pressing. Over the last four years the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reached out to the country's motorsport industry in an effort to improve the equipment it procures and, in particular, to satisfy its urgent operational requirements for Afghanistan. Zircotec has of course been involved in this initiative through its supply of its heat management solutions and expertise, and this has helped reduce in-cab temperatures for some of the MoD's land vehicles.

 

Further details of this MoD led initiative are featured in a recent article by Matthew Bell in Janes Defence Weekly (on 9th December 2009). The article points out that most of the UK military vehicles operating in Afghanistan today have had some kind of input from the motorsport industry.