- Naval systems and equipment
- Preservation and protection
- Personnel safety and medical
- Armoured and multi-purposed vehicle support
Kaycom offers a broad range of equipment and customized solutions for aerial retardation and restraint systems for both people and cargo. The heightened tempo of special operations in challenging terrain by many militaries has increased demand for a wide variety of aerial retardation parachute systems. There is ever-increasing emphasis on precision capability, which includes steering, onboard GPS navigation, and sometimes use of power-assistance to increase cross-range distances. The worlds of classic parachutes and guided unmanned vehicles are converging.
Kaycom can also supply a very broad range of personnel harnesses and restraint systems and cargo tie-down equipment for use in aircraft and land military equipment. Designed to meet very stringent loading requirements, this equipment is qualified to the highest aviation standards, including 16g dynamic loads.
CIMSA Ingenieria de Sistemas SA, based in Barcelona, Spain, is a world leader in aerial delivery and parachute systems. Its unparalleled range of products includes Personnel Parachutes, Deceleration and Stabilization Systems, Cargo Drop Parachutes and Powerchutes. CIMSA alos manufactures life jackets that are compatible with personnel parachutes.
The company's cargo drop parachutes range from the 100 ft diameter G-11 that supports loads up to 5,000 lbs, to the 34 ft diameter G-14 for loads of up to 500 lbs. SILK is a family of rectangular ram-air wings specially designed for use in powered parachute vehicles of up to 500 kg MTOW. CIMSA invests heavily in innovative development programs. Current examples include controlled deformation of ram air wings, synchronized inflation of elliptical wings, high aspect ratio wings, precision guided heavy parafolis and Mars atmosphere landing systems.
Mills Manufacturing Corporation, based in Asheville, North Carolina, has a wide range of personnel, cargo, extraction and deceleration parachutes as well as associated packs and harnesses. Its military personnel parachutes have been used by the United States military since the 1950s. The company also manufactures packs and harnesses, flare, cluster munition, drogue and drone recovery parachutes, as well as ribbon chutes.
Mills airborne troop parachutes include both parabolic and flat circular designs. Cargo parachutes are flat circular and biconical with canopy diameters ranging from 34 ft to 100 ft. Extraction and stabilization parachutes are of ring slot design with diameters of 15 to 28 ft.
Davis Aircraft Products, with manufacturing facilities in New York State and California, offers a very broad range of aviation and military personnel and cargo restraint hardware. An engineering-based company, Davis develops customized solutions to meet demanding aviation and military requirements. Davis has been designing and manufacturing safety tie-down and cargo control products since the 1950s and is an accepted standard in the aviation industry. In addition to providing products for standard applications, custom design and engineering are also available.
Davis hardware products include buckles, hooks, rings, studs, floor plates, web assemblies and seat belt assemblies. Seat belts and harnesses are fully approved and include 4 and 5 point rotary buckles and 16g inertia reel systems. Belts and harnesses can be certified to TSO-C22 and TSO-C114. Customized platings and logos are available together with a choice of over 100 web colours.
The company's specialized engineered products include an energy attenuating cargo tiedown system designed for initial use in the Boeing-Bell V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. This system incorporates attenuators which absorb crash energy by means of permanent deformation, and thus protect aircraft structure from the crash loads. The Advanced Cargo Tiedown System (ACATS). uses an innovative fibre webbing material which combines the high strength (36,000 lb, 14,170 kg) and low elongation of chain systems, with the reduced weight and ease of handling of strap systems.