Scandavian States
29-01-2005, 02:20
The Imperium would like to announce that a joint project between several private companies within the Imperium, the Imperial Army, and Imperial Marine Corp has made the next level in armoured vehicle protection schemes possible.
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Layer 1: A thin copper-carbide shell that, when it has sufficient amounts of electricity run through it, would render the armoured vehicle all but invulnerable to HEAT.
Layer 2: The primary armour, a layer of a special titanium-based alloy. The alloy is extremely tough, it will stretch but not deform, it does not expand upon being heated. In the most basic and simple terms, it's a memory metal.
Layer 3: A honeycomb of the aforementioned titanium alloy. Each cell of the honeycomb is filled with aerogel-suspended copper-carbide flakes. This gives even further protection against HEAT.
Layer 4: Mirrors layer 2
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Currently large-scale integration of the armour into new tanks in not possible, mostly due to the difficulties inherent in mass production of a couple of the materials. Due to their relative cheapness, M1A2 Abrams MBTs were selected as the test vehicles. It has been shown that an improvement anywhere from 75-100% would is possible without any substantial weight gain, although some level of refinement is obviously necessary to make the scheme reliable enough for deployment in Imperial Army and Imperial Marine tanks.
[If anybody would like the links that prove that all these materials are present in the here and now, please TG me.]
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Layer 1: A thin copper-carbide shell that, when it has sufficient amounts of electricity run through it, would render the armoured vehicle all but invulnerable to HEAT.
Layer 2: The primary armour, a layer of a special titanium-based alloy. The alloy is extremely tough, it will stretch but not deform, it does not expand upon being heated. In the most basic and simple terms, it's a memory metal.
Layer 3: A honeycomb of the aforementioned titanium alloy. Each cell of the honeycomb is filled with aerogel-suspended copper-carbide flakes. This gives even further protection against HEAT.
Layer 4: Mirrors layer 2
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Currently large-scale integration of the armour into new tanks in not possible, mostly due to the difficulties inherent in mass production of a couple of the materials. Due to their relative cheapness, M1A2 Abrams MBTs were selected as the test vehicles. It has been shown that an improvement anywhere from 75-100% would is possible without any substantial weight gain, although some level of refinement is obviously necessary to make the scheme reliable enough for deployment in Imperial Army and Imperial Marine tanks.
[If anybody would like the links that prove that all these materials are present in the here and now, please TG me.]