McCurdy’s Armor is a patented portable armored wall system that protects against small arms, mortars, rockets, artillery, armor-piercing rounds and suicide bombs.
It blows my mind, all the cool things that come out AFTER I have gotten out of the service. Is what it is. However this new “Lego-Like” armor is REALLY cool! I started researching all I could on this modern marvel of combat technology. Here is what the manufacturer DDM and Wikipedia have to say on it.
Constructed of aluminum frames that unfold and connect to one another using steel connector pins, McCurdy’s Armor can be deployed into a full guard post by a three-person team in less than ten minutes, using no hand tools or heavy equipment. The system can be dismantled and redeployed in a similar amount of time. McCurdy’s Armor includes bullet proof glass windows that provide full situational awareness and, when necessary, can be opened and used as gun ports.
McCurdy’s Armor is made by Dynamic Defense Materials, a defense manufacturing company that was founded in 2004 by Robert Lipinski. Dynamic Defense Materials is headquartered in Marlton, New Jersey. The company uses manufacturers in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Texas to produce McCurdy’s Armor.
Originally called Evaloch, McCurdy’s Armor was officially renamed in 2009 to honor LCpl. Ryan S. McCurdy, who was mortally wounded from a sniper attack in Fallujah, Iraq on January 5, 2006. At the time of the attack, LCpl. McCurdy was on duty with Cpl. Clifton Trotter, who was shot in the neck and severely injured. LCpl. McCurdy was killed by sniper fire when he left his position in an attempt to pull Cpl. Trotter to safety. Cpl. Trotter survived the attack.
Joe Dimond, General Manager of Dynamic Defense Materials and a ten-year Marine veteran, served with LCpl. McCurdy in Fallujah, Iraq. In honor of LCpl. McCurdy, Dynamic Defense Materials donates a percentage of all sales to the Ryan McCurdy Fund, a charity that has been set up in LCpl. McCurdy’s name to provide a safe place for children to learn and grow in Baton Rouge, LA. (WIKI)