The Central Tire Inflation System (CTIS) for military applications is a high-flow low-pressure solution for tire inflation. CTIS is a very convenient and reliable solution for any vehicle, allowing the driver to adjust the front and rear axles separately with the help of a few buttons from inside the cabin for the correct pressure specific to different load and operating conditions.
Another benefit of this system is the elimination of the problems experienced by the armored vehicles used in military operations due to their flat tires.
Central Tire Inflation System (CTIS) provides benefits in important issues such as operational efficiency, tire life and fuel consumption by keeping the tire pressures at the appropriate level for all vehicles it is used in. It also provides reliability and reduces or completely eliminates the need for vehicle recovery, which may occur due to a flat tire, depending on how the tire explodes.
As in commercial vehicles also in multi-purpose armored vehicles, the power units and power trains of the vehicles with 8x8 chassis are kept under the driver cabin. The maintenance of the vehicle engine and connected components is of great importance for every vehicle. The cabin, on the other hand, due to its location in such vehicles, stands out as a vehicle component that poses a major obstacle in reaching the engine compartment and eliminating faults in the system.
As the armor steel is used in armored vehicles when compared to commercial vehicles, and as these are made of highly resistant materials due to their chassis constructions, the cabins made of such constructions may weigh 4 to 5 tons and they constitute extra weight to the system and cause maintenance deficiency because of that. Since the mechanical lifting of such weight takes time and causes more people to provide effort, our presented solutions completely eliminate such troublesome perquisite.
All sub parts used in our systems have 480-hour resistance as stipulated by military standards.
Military armored vehicles are surrounded by highly resistant protection systems and their ballistics protection levels have increased along with their armors. With the increase in protection levels, the vehicles’ door and door systems have also gotten heavier. Heavy and durable door systems provide an important aspect for vehicle door systems yet the use of such heavy door systems is hard to use with manpower alone. In the case of tilting over in curved land conditions (30% side or 60% front curve) or during an operation, opening or closing the door with manpower gets even harder. This event might endanger the lives of the military personnel during operation. This has caused the need for door support system (KDS) applications.
KDS systems are designed per vehicle in line with the customer's needs and with its battery it allows the door to be opened and closed 25 times without the need for a vehicle power supply. KDS system is equipped with maximum security systems, and in case of risk of getting personnel’s limbs such as hand or arm to suck the closing of the door is automatically stops. Since the system has a blockade, it can be opened easily during external intervention.
Hydraulic foot systems are defined as a whole system on which vehicles like cranes work, allow leveling the wheeled vehicles, and include hydraulic-driven mechanical fittings.
When this system is used along with the vehicle, the vehicle needs to be leveled per the floor plane and the vehicle needs to be stable in a rigid position. For this, there needs to be a system which minimizes the connection of the vehicle’s wheels to the floor and that keeps the vehicle in a rigid/stable position. The hydraulic foot system is a system that includes hydraulic and mechanical systems in order to meet this need and can level the vehicle with a cylinder system that works independently from each other.
Heated hoses serve the purpose of ensuring that the liquid (fuel, oil, etc.) is transported from the reserve reservoir on the vehicle to the system components in other locations, even in very different temperature values, without any problems, especially in cold climate conditions. Even if the ambient temperature changes radically in operational conditions, the system must remain at a constant temperature. Thanks to the heated hoses even in environment temperatures between -40OC to +80OC the liquid transfer function is performed without any problems.