Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Held, Manfred

Titel

Defeating Mechanisms of Armours for Main Battle Tanks

Ist Teil von

• Journal of China Ordnance, 2005-03, Vol.1 (1), p.1-9

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The fundamental protection principles of the new armours for main battle tanks against kinetic energy projectiles(KE) and chemical energy weapons (CE)——shaped charges are shortly described and their efficiency against both threats discussed. The armour topics can be split into: “perpendicular or zero-degree armours”, such as rolled homogeneous armour (RHA), also with extremely high strength, ceramics, glass, liquid filled columns and explosive filled cells,“inclined armours”, as spaced RHA plates with their corner effects, bulging armour, additive and integrated explosive reactive armours (ERA) and “hard kill active defence possibilities” in different defeating distances.