The cables in defense/military and public safety applications simply cannot fail. That fact is at the center of everything we do when we design custom cable solutions for these demanding applications. Our defense/military and public safety customers trust us to think of everything necessary to insure the integrity of their products, including: adherence to critical defense/military specifications and standards ruggedization class braiding, shielding and armoring mobility, modularity and portability secure communications and high-speed data transmission improved clarity and signal strength adoption of technological advances resistance to explosive shock resistance to environmental challenges like abrasion, flame, grease, oil, dirt, dust, moisture and temperature extremes submersion of watertight interfaces passive latching demanding requirements for flexibility and retraction cord retraction and pull strength high- and continuous-flex applications different types of flex: rolling, bending, torsional and variable/mixed C&M Corporation is registered with the US State Department Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and meets the ITAR manufacturer requirements in accordance with 22 CFR 120-130.

C&M Military Cable Success Story When the turret control systems of the M1A1 Abrams tank needed updating, the manufacturer turned to C&M for assistance with the coil cords and assemblies. Their original supplier could no longer offer the cable, so we had to reverse-engineer the coil cords and assemblies before we could produce them. To make matters even more complex, the turnaround time on this project was extremely tight.  Then, we saw the mil specs on the job. Literally hundreds of pages long, the specs included a great deal of information that was irrelevant to the task at hand. Rather than using precious time sorting through the pages to find what pertained to the coil cords, we worked with our customer to turn the mil specs into performance specifications that applied only to the coil cords. With these details in hand, we were able to start work much sooner and more efficiently. Of course, we couldn’t allow ourselves to produce the cables without making the end product even better than the original. We went into the field to observe the use of these cables in the tank and noted the stresses that the cable was subjected to when the operator moves and the turret rotates.  The original cable had a soldered termination at a “Y” in the cable that was the primary failure mechanism for the cable assembly.  Back in our labs, we redesigned the cable to eliminate the termination and provide continuous conductors all the way through to the connectors at both legs of the “Y”.  We made the coils more robust to support the cord extension length that we observed in actual use.  Finally, we took the time to design the cable assembly process so that every cable we will ever produce will have the same great performance as the first ones. So our tank commanders will never lose control of their turrets.