Agiel Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Steven Zaloga's works suggest that early ERA, like early '80s composite armour developed in Chobham and its derivatives, provided fantastic protection against CE while providing comparatively minimal additional protection against KE. Using the diagram for the early T-72B in the wiki, how much more protection does this translate into for KE and CE? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dejawolf Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 +350mm vs HEAT, and nearly nothing vs KE. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damian90 Posted April 15, 2014 Share Posted April 15, 2014 Steven Zaloga's works suggest that early ERA, like early '80s composite armour developed in Chobham and its derivatives, provided fantastic protection against CE while providing comparatively minimal additional protection against KE. Actually composite armors provided increase in protection or both KE and CE. And BTW, it's not "Chobham", non of these armors used by M1, Challenger 1 or Leopard 2 have codename. The only official codename that can be found in documents is "Burlington", and this is only codename for research and development program. The US part of the program had also alternative codename "Starflower". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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