That is the entire job of a sacrificial lining, and it is the reason a baffle range can sit inside an installation instead of out in open country. RUFICS is a composite lining developed for the lower stretch of a baffle wall: rubber fiber reinforced polyurethane with composite steel, light enough to bolt to an existing RCC beam.
Danger area · stage 01 of 05
An open range is not just the firing point and the targets. It is the whole danger area behind them, which has to stay clear of everything. Scroll, and watch what each part of a baffle range takes off that area.
Nothing stops a round except distance. The danger area runs far past the targets and spreads wide on either side, and every metre of it has to be kept clear of people, roads and buildings. That is why ranges end up far from the units that need them.
NO CONTAINMENT · OPEN RANGEWalls down both flanks stop a round that leaves the lane sideways. The danger area stops spreading outward and starts to follow the shape of the range itself.
SIDE WALLS · STRUCTUREBaffle walls hang across the range so a round fired high meets structure instead of sky. Without a path upward, the danger area stops reaching out beyond the stop butt.
BAFFLE WALLS · ARMOUR PLATEA low round striking the range floor can travel a long way. Box barriers set between the lanes catch it where it lands, closing the last route out.
GROUND BARRIER · RUSTERStructure only contains a round if it survives being hit, thousands of times, in the same band along the bottom of every wall. Sacrificial lining absorbs those strikes instead of returning them, and is replaced when it is consumed. This is where RUFICS works.
RUFICS · SACRIFICIAL LININGThe range no longer needs the land around it.
Firing range products
Every part of that sequence is something we make. Most clients come for one and specify the rest once they see how the range behaves.
High-hardness plate facing baffle walls and the target gallery, where direct strikes concentrate.
SIFCON, FICS and RUFICS panels for the lower stretch of baffle walls — the layer meant to be consumed.
Box barriers along the range floor that trap mis-fired rounds before they travel.
Manual or motorised target frames built to the user's own range specification.
The panel
Rubber fiber reinforced polyurethane with composite steel, built for the lower stretch of a baffle wall. Same position as a concrete-based lining, same test regime, less weight hanging off the beam.
Weight is not a spec line. It is the whole install.
Every kilogram has to be carried up a wall, held while it is aligned, and hung off fixings drilled into a beam that is already holding the wall up. Bringing the panel under 200 kg per square metre changes the anchor schedule, the lifting gear and how many people have to be on site to put one run up.
It changes the end of the panel's life too. A sacrificial layer is meant to be consumed and swapped — the lighter it is, the less a range has to shut down to do it.
Detailed engineering goes to identified buyers after an enquiry, under the project's own confidentiality terms.
Request the datasheetFigures describe the design specification. Protection, durability and fire performance are confirmed by testing at an approved laboratory for each project and its stated threat level.
Choosing a lining
SIFCON and FICS concrete panels are the proven, lower-cost choice for most ranges. RUFICS is the lighter option where the structure cannot carry the weight.
Prices are indicative, excluding GST, and depend on specification, thickness, quantity and site. Final price on quotation. We supply both.
Installation control
A panel that is correct on paper and badly fixed is a liability on a live range. These are the controls we apply on every installation.
Hole positions marked with a laser rather than measured by hand, so alignment holds across a long wall.
Reinforcement located before a single hole is made, which avoids repeat drilling and protects the beam.
Panel lines set with a laser, keeping the gap between panels to a minimum and the face flat.
Hardwood batten at the rear and a wooden cap at the front shield the nuts and bolts from direct strike.
How we work
We measure the range as it actually is, and check what the structure can carry before anything is specified.
Lining selected against your threat level and the standard you work to, with the datasheet released to you.
Panels produced at our works in Punjab under process control, with sample testing before bulk production.
Rebar scanned, holes laser-marked, panel lines laser levelled, fixings capped and protected.
Inspection of the finished run before the range is used, with documentation for your records.
Kill house lining
A kill house is a baffle range folded into a room. The distances collapse, the angles get worse, and the people are inside it rather than behind it. Every surface becomes a target and every hard face becomes a ricochet risk.
Testing & approvals
Construction follows the TBRL Ballistic Resistance manual, so what is supplied matches what the range was specified against.
Testing criteria follow the same manual, in its 2014 and 2020 norms, rather than an in-house standard of our own.
Ballistic approval can be carried out at any suitable government laboratory the client nominates.
Test scope and results are specific to the sample, threat level and conditions of each test. Reports are shared with identified buyers on request.
Questions
Rubber Fiber Reinforced Polyurethane with Composite Steel. It describes a material class rather than a single fixed recipe, and the panel is supplied against the specification agreed for your range.
All three do the same job — sacrificial lining on baffle walls — from different material families. SIFCON and FICS are high-grade concrete composites. RUFICS is the rubber and polyurethane alternative, developed to bring the weight down. Which suits your range depends on the specification, the structure and the threat level.
Along the lower stretch of the wall, where rounds concentrate. The rest of the wall is not subjected to the same repeated strike, so lining the full height is rarely specified.
Yes. It is bolted to fixings taken into the existing RCC beam, and the lower weight is specifically what makes retrofitting practical. We scan the beam before drilling.
That is the intention — a sacrificial layer is meant to be consumed and swapped rather than repaired in place. Panels come off their fixings, which is why the bolt heads are protected during installation.
The full datasheet, test reports and fixing drawings go to identified buyers after an enquiry. Send your range details and we will tell you what applies to your project.
Yes — armour plate, ground barriers and target systems alongside the lining. Most ranges need more than one of them.
Enquiry
Wall lengths, the threat level you are specified against, and whether the range is new or being retrofitted. That is enough for us to come back with something useful.