Reactive armour is old. The Abrams armour is a ceramet - ceramic and metal mixture, details are still classified. That electrical armour is an interesting idea, but I cannot see how it would work against variations of kp or sc's that use a slug of molten metal to penetrate the armour. I would expect that it would not work as well.
larry At 01:30 PM 6/27/2003 -0400, jon hall wrote: >It exists believe it or not...I'll see if I can dig up the link but >the armor experts in the UK (iirc) have designed a new tank armor tech >that detects an incoming projectile and somehow electrifies the armor >in a way that strengthens it. This article says the Israelis came up >with explosive reactive armor...but for some reason I want to say the >armor on the Abrams was designed by a UK company, and that's the >company designing the power armor. Been a while since I read the >article about it, and my killing machines bookmarks are at home :) > >http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive_armour > >-- > jon > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Friday, June 27, 2003, 10:56:09 AM, you wrote: > >AS> Pretty soon we'll have POWER ARMOR!! > >AS> ^_^ > >AS> -Gel >AS> -----Original Message----- >AS> From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >AS> Actually, I was thinking of a Gibson fletchette gun. > >AS> -Kevin > >AS> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
