Electric Tank Armour

[Razor]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/08/19/nmod19.xml

In a recent demonstration of the electric armour for senior Army officers, an APC protected by the new British system survived repeated attacks by rocket-propelled grenades that would normally have destroyed it several times over.

Many of the grenades were fired from point-blank range but the only damage to the APC was cosmetic. The vehicle was driven away under its own power.

 

[Sprafa]

That's about 2 years old, it was used in Afghanistan.

Still, it's more like magnetic armor.

 

[CptStern]

ya but I can get this now for my car

 

[Sprafa]

ya but I can get this now for my car

OMFG!!!

I got to get one of those!

 

[CptStern]

ya but with the way gas prices are these days, it'll cost a lot to burn those pesky car thieves

 

[Brian Damage]

If it saves lives, and it's cool sci-fi-like technology, it's a winner in my book...

 

[Maxi]

Imagine that armour on a car, now imagine that car with the armour beeing hit by another car that doesn't have that armor. Insta vapo!

 

[Brian Damage]

I'm pretty sure it's designed only for copper-based shaped-charge rocket warheads...

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

heheh, good ol crazie arse British inventions!!!


Gota love it!

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah i shouldn't imagine the car you hit would just go up in a puff of smoke...Although it would be useful in traffice, just keep hitting cars and front and watch them turn to a small pile of dust on the floor.

 

[Sprafa]

I'm pretty sure it's designed only for copper-based shaped-charge rocket warheads...

indeed. As I said, it's more magnetic than eletric, since it blocks the penetrating copper with an intense magnetic field inside the armor (between 2 layers).

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

Heheh, I can just see it:


"OI GET OUTA MEH WAY!!!"

BZZZZRRRRRT!!!!



"BETTER!!!"

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Well you often find magnetism around electricity...

 

[Maxi]

Cool! so it's more of a hi-tech bumber car then?

 

[nicrd]

I have some doubts about this news. I am a technician and work for my power company in a transformation centre that transforms 735 000 Volts to 315 000 Volts so I have some knowledge about high voltage. whats unlikely with that tank is :

1. you would need a very high voltage to defend it, lets say the two plate have a ten foot distance, you would need about 500000 Volts to create an electrical arc. This voltage is easy to get, but not in a tank because you need a very very big transformer.

2. The article stated a very high current (thousands of amps) since the power is the voltage times the current ( P=VI), then 1000 Amps * 500000V is 500 mega watts. that is enough to power a small town. Even if the tank had enough power to generate this in a very short instant, it is very unlikely it can do it without damaging itself.

3. The distance between the plates and the tank or the ground has to be longer than the distance between the two plates. If it is too short, its the tank that will get pulverised by the electric arc.

I'd like to get a more technical explanation about this, but it seems VERY VERY unlikely.

btw, where there is electricity there is magnetism. but magnetism is useless against a flying projectile.

 

[nicrd]

oups, I just read the article again and I realised I misunderstood the concept of this defense. I thought it was done with an electric arc, but its not. So what I said is true, but does not apply to this tank.

I still have some doubts that it works well.

 

[Direwolf]

Used to be a shop teacher at my school that would demonstrate the concept of high discharge capacitors upon lazy students. He'd walk behind their stool and contact it with a capacitor, knocking them out of the chair.

 

[nicrd]

Used to be a shop teacher at my school that would demonstrate the concept of high discharge capacitors upon lazy students. He'd walk behind their stool and contact it with a capacitor, knocking them out of the chair.

yeah, in our labs we used to do this. But wed leave the capacitor charged on a table, then someone (usually new kids) would take and POP!!!! jump in the air. This can be dangerous if you put much volts, so dont try this at home.

Another fun thing with capacitors is plugging them in the wall power outlet, just stand back.

I also have a lighter that gives a shock when you press on it and i'm working on a pen that does it to. Make very funny jokes.

 

[Tr0n]

I have some doubts about this news. I am a technician and work for my power company in a transformation centre that transforms 735 000 Volts to 315 000 Volts so I have some knowledge about high voltage. whats unlikely with that tank is :

1. you would need a very high voltage to defend it, lets say the two plate have a ten foot distance, you would need about 500000 Volts to create an electrical arc. This voltage is easy to get, but not in a tank because you need a very very big transformer.

2. The article stated a very high current (thousands of amps) since the power is the voltage times the current ( P=VI), then 1000 Amps * 500000V is 500 mega watts. that is enough to power a small town. Even if the tank had enough power to generate this in a very short instant, it is very unlikely it can do it without damaging itself.

3. The distance between the plates and the tank or the ground has to be longer than the distance between the two plates. If it is too short, its the tank that will get pulverised by the electric arc.

I'd like to get a more technical explanation about this, but it seems VERY VERY unlikely.

btw, where there is electricity there is magnetism. but magnetism is useless against a flying projectile.

Ok...this is the british goverment...they probally made shit that none of us know about and put it in this tank.So yes it is likely.Also if I remember correctly scientist said that detecting planes with a microwave frequncy is very unlikely and impossible to...but what happend???Radar was invented.

 

[nicrd]

Ok...this is the british goverment...they probally made shit that none of us know about and put it in this tank.So yes it is likely.Also if I remember correctly scientist said that detecting planes with a microwave frequncy is very unlikely and impossible to...but what happend???Radar was invented.

yes, I was wrong in that post, at the time I imagined the tank like a tesla coil, but its not like this. Yes, it is possible, but id like to read amore technical article about it. If it was like a tesla coil it would be cool, but impossible.

 

[marksmanHL2 :)]

I doubt they would let on all the details.

They will want to sell the technology no doubt. I mean Britain isnt so rich anymore lol.

Hell the armour on the American M1A1s is British...


(Heheh side note. Our armour is sooo much better than yours atm!! )

 

[Razor]

The distance between the 2 plates would be measured in mms or cms, not feet. I think it would work on the same principle of Reactive armour plating, but using an electrical field instead of an explosive force that vapourises the copper based directional charge.