Sarvatra: The Indigenous Bullet-proof Jacket

Major Anoop Mishra of the Indian Army has won the Army Design Bureau Excellence Award for designing and developing a new bullet-proof jacket.

• The jacket, named ‘Sarvatra’, has been indigenously developed at the College of Military Engineering, Pune.
• It is a Level IV hard body armour suit with panel inserts.
• It can withstand hits from all kinds of ammunition including lethal sniper rifle bullets and offers protection from neck to ankle and upper arms.
• The jacket has been tested by the Infantry at their test facility.
• With increase in the number of sniper attacks across the LoC, a need was felt for armour ....