reactive armor
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Reactive armour — M60A1 Patton tank with Israeli Blazer ERA. A … Wikipedia
reactive armour — noun Protective panels on a military armoured vehicle, which explode to disrupt the penetrating jet of a shaped charge weapon. Syn: explosive reactive armour, explosive reactive armor, ERA … Wiktionary
Ablative armor — is armor designed to negate damage by itself being damaged or destroyed through the process of ablation. In contemporary spacecraft, ablative plating is most frequently seen as an ablative heat shield for a vehicle that must enter atmosphere from … Wikipedia
Cage armor — also known as bar armor, slat armor, and standoff armor is a type of armor designed to protect against anti tank rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attacks. It functions by placing a rigid barrier around the vehicle which causes the shaped charge… … Wikipedia
M1 Abrams — Infobox Weapon name=M1 Abrams caption=US Marine Corps M1A1 on a live fire exercise in Iraq, 2003 origin=United States type=Main battle tank is vehicle=yes service= used by=United States, Australia, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia wars=Gulf War, Iraq… … Wikipedia
Rocket-propelled grenade — RPG, or rocket propelled grenade, is a loose term describing hand held, shoulder launched anti tank weapons capable of firing an unguided rocket equipped with an explosive warhead. RPG is a transliteration of РПГ, the Russian abbreviation of… … Wikipedia
M60 Patton — Infobox Weapon name=M60 caption=M60A3 type=Main battle tank origin=United States is vehicle=yes service= 1960 early 1990s (USA) used by= wars= Yom Kippur, Vietnam, Iran Iraq, Gulf, Iraq designer= design date= manufacturer=Detroit Arsenal Tank… … Wikipedia
Object 187 — Type Main battle tank Place of origin Soviet Union … Wikipedia
Tandem-charge — A tandem charge weapon is an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation. It is effective against cage armor as well as reactive armor which is designed to protect an armored vehicle (mostly tanks) against anti tank… … Wikipedia
High explosive anti-tank warhead — High explosive anti tank (HEAT) rounds are made of an explosive shaped charge that uses the Neumann effect (a development of the Munroe effect) to create a very high velocity jet of metal in a state of superplasticity that can punch through solid … Wikipedia
