by Liz Karson | Feb 13, 2018 | Counter Terrorism
The Nice/HySecurity StrongArm M50 is an anti-ram barrier designed to stop a small passenger vehicle or a truck from breaching the perimeter of a secured facility. Typical applications include nuclear power plants, embassies, military bases, corrections facilities,...
by Liz Karson | Nov 21, 2017 | Wedge Vehicle Barriers
HySecurity, a regular ECI supplier, posted this video last year showing the effectiveness of one of their vehicle wedge barriers in stopping a truck. It is worth a second look following our discussions about the effectiveness of vehicle wedge barriers. Watch through...
by Liz Karson | Oct 19, 2017 | Wedge Vehicle Barriers
Wedge vehicle barriers are one of several types of barriers and components of a well designed active vehicle barrier system. They pivot up from the pavement surface to form a wedge shaped barrier to block traffic flow. (See photo above compliments of Nasatka...
by Liz Karson | Oct 10, 2017 | Vehicle Access Control
Active vehicle barriers (AVB) are generally used at critical access control or entry locations. These active barriers have moveable parts, some of which, or most all of the parts, are power assisted. The systems are manually or mechanically operated to allow or...
by Liz Karson | Aug 31, 2017 | Counter Terrorism
This graphic YouTube video (over a million views) doesn’t reveal the entire story about this crash test near Schiffberg (north of Berlin), Germany. The test driver, a 48 year old, was seriously injured and air lifted to a hospital after driving this short haul...
