"Used at locations where wide roadways need to be secured from attacking vehicles, organizations worldwide can now use the DSC7000 beam barrier with the confidence that it will protect them," says Delta scientific senior vice president David Dickinson. "Being able to be closed in less than a second means that attack vehicles are not going to be able to speed through an opened barrier."

In its first crash test, the 725-pound beam of the vertical lift barricade stopped a 15,000-pound (66.7 kN) vehicle traveling 50 mph (80 kph) dead in its tracks, equivalent to 1.2-million foot pounds of kinetic energy. By doing so, the new DSC7000 meets the K12 crash certification standard set by the United States Department of State.

The DCS7000 is designed to be installed at the sides of a roadway to avoid lengthy road closures during construction. Delta's beam barricades are available in hydraulic and manually operated models. All models are crash rated with one version enhanced for applications at nuclear power plants. Their clear openings range is from 10.5 to 20 feet (3.2 m to 7.3 m).

Delta builds seven broad classes of counter terrorist vehicle barricade systems, including beam barricades, wedge barricades, bollards, sliding gates, shallow foundation high security barricades, surface mounted barricades and portable barricades.