To: GarySpFc
My understanding is that the slats activate the point detonating fuze causing pre-mature detonation so the explosive jet isn't in contact with the vehicle. This allows the armor to disperse the effects better and provide greater survivability.
A friend of mine told me that the "slat armor" was actually a Russian developed item. I don't know, but if it works who cares what it looks like.
5 posted on
01/24/2006 7:31:39 AM PST by
Cliff Dweller
("get thar fustest with the mostest." GEN NB Forrest)
To: Cliff Dweller
A friend of mine told me that the "slat armor" was actually a Russian developed item.
The first was aware of slat armor was on US Army boats running the rivers and canals of the Mekong Delta. The crews welded cages of rebar around the wheelhouse and gun positions.
19 posted on
01/24/2006 8:29:04 AM PST by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Cliff Dweller
"but if it works, who cares what it looks like?"
----I'm sorry,but I care what it looks like.
When I'm in a battle, I want my tank to look NICE!
Hugs and kisses, willyboyishere.
26 posted on
01/24/2006 9:18:36 AM PST by
willyboyishere
(""The unlived life is not worth examining" ---willyboyishere)
To: Cliff Dweller
The Germans deployed stand-off armer skirts on their tanks in WWII. Those dealt with shaped charges.
30 posted on
01/24/2006 9:44:46 AM PST by
Redleg Duke
(Kennedy and Kerry, the two Commissars of the Peoples' Republic of Massachusetts!)
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