Re: New 'electrical active' Armour to defeat hand held anti-tank rounds

Michael Llaneza schrieb:
> The Register usually doesn't cover the defense industry,
> but they will cover anything odd in the "technology" field. For a
> quirky look at the IT world, I love the Reg.
> 
> Jonathan White wrote:
> 
> > Unusual source, but a start point for those interested
> in such things. 
> > Sounds vaguely feasible to me.
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/26728.html

It's not entirely news. A year ago, the Observer already reported these
experiments. The design described in the Observer seems more complex
the one in the Register, but I don't know if these are actual
differences in the technical design or the journalist's understanding
of it.

See:
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,539143,00.html

Does anybody have an idea about how good it would be against kinetic
energy penetrators ? As these are metal, too, they should have some
effect.

Guess we need one more armour category in DS2 beyond ablative and
reactive ;-)

Greetings