
Defence Applications: Manufacturing Military Hardware from composite materials.....
St Bernard Composites Ltd (SBCL) has a long history of manufacturing military hardware from composite materials to meet a wide range of arduous applications.
An extensive range of external fairings and sub-assemblies are manufactured from carbon, glass and aramid fibre composites and supplied for fixed and rotating wing applications. Helicopters also use metal to metal bonding for external body panels and close tolerance internal equipment shelving.
Missile body components such as fins and fairings are compression moulded from long fibre epoxy composites.
SBCL has manufactured a range of composite radomes, antennae and Sat Coms equipment including segmented man portable communications dishes.
Latest aircraft platforms such as the JSF benefit from the materials expertise of SBCL where novel materials and manufacturing solutions have been developed.
SBCL develops and manufactures composite components to suit a wide range of service conditions including:

