Kill house lining · anti-ricochet rubber panels A room that keeps every round it is given
A kill house is a baffle range folded into four walls. The firing distances collapse, the angles get worse, and the people are inside it rather than behind it. That changes what the lining has to do: stop the round, and stop it without throwing anything back into a space a team is standing in.
What the lining has to do
Four demands, all at once
Capture, not deflect
At close range a hard surface returns energy into the room. A rubber-based lining takes the round in and holds it, which is the whole point of an anti-ricochet layer.
Work at bad angles
In a room almost nothing is struck square. The lining has to behave the same way on a glancing hit as on a direct one.
Collect what falls
A gap at the base of each panel lets fragments drop into a controlled space instead of scattering across the floor between serials.
Come off again
Lining is consumable. Fixings are protected during installation so panels can be unbolted and replaced without cutting into the structure.
Surfaces
Where lining goes in a shoot house
Different surfaces take different punishment, so they are specified separately rather than wrapped in one product.
- FIXED WALLS
The permanent shell
Lining anchored to the existing RCC walls of the building, forming the outer boundary of the training space. This is the surface that holds whatever the room does not.
- MOVABLE WALLS
Partitions that set the layout
Protected on both faces, because in a room-clearing exercise every partition is somebody’s front and somebody else’s back. Mounted so instructors can change the floor plan between serials.
- FLOOR
Underfoot
Bonded rubber flooring in place of bare concrete, so a downward round is absorbed rather than skipped back up at shin height.
- CEILING
Overhead
Lining and an acoustic layer specified together, since a room that is ballistically sound and acoustically brutal still cannot be used all day.
- OBSERVATION
Glazed openings
Ballistic glazing where instructors need to watch the run from outside the line of fire, framed and anchored to the same standard as the panels around it.
Scope of supply
What a project normally includes
- Site survey and measured layout of the existing building
- Lining specification per surface, against your threat level
- Panel supply from our works in Punjab
- Fixing design, rebar scanning and installation on site
- Fragment collection detail at the base of each run
- Handover inspection before the facility is used
Technical documentation is issued to identified buyers after an enquiry:
- Panel build-up and material specification per surface
- Ballistic test reports for the specified threat level
- Fixing drawings, anchor schedule and fragment gap detail
- Acoustic treatment specification
- Reference projects
Roschcrete also builds complete kill house facilities through FICS Panel, and deployable structures through Portable Bunker.
Questions
Kill house lining, asked and answered
Can an existing building be converted into a kill house?
Usually, yes. A shed, hangar or disused hall can become the shell, with lining anchored to the walls that are already there. We survey the structure first, because the beams have to carry the fixings.
Why rubber rather than a hard ballistic surface?
At room distances a hard face returns energy. A rubber-based anti-ricochet layer absorbs the strike and keeps the round and its fragments in one place, which is what makes repeated live fire inside a small space workable.
How often does lining need replacing?
It depends on round count, threat level and where your teams actually shoot — some panels wear out long before others. That is why lining is bolted rather than bonded, and why panels are individually replaceable.
Do you handle acoustics as well?
Yes, specified alongside the ballistic layer rather than added afterwards. Noise is the injury a training house causes most reliably.
What do you need from us to quote?
Room dimensions, the number of rooms you want, the ammunition classes in use, and whether the building already exists. Anything else we can work out from a survey.
Enquiry
Send us the building
Dimensions, room count and threat level. You get a surface-by-surface proposal back, not a brochure.