From: Dave Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Sun Aug 25 2002 - 22:25:19 PDT
Hi, all
Was the link to the story that was released to the media on Electrical
Armour given I may have missed it and I would like to read about this
because what I have heard so far does not jive with common physics although
it is very interesting.
I would like to know how the Armour depletes the energy and gas from the
penetrator/slug and spalling from that penetration and causes the second
layer to vaporize the penetrator without the contents of the tank having
there brain drip out there ears from the pressure.
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] 'Electric armour' vaporizes anti-tank grenades and shell s
At 10:36 PM -0500 8/25/02, Dave Cole wrote:
>Something is wrong with this story. I understand how capacitors
>work, but a shaped charge that is powerful enough to penetrate 1' of
>steel is going to blow
>right through thin armor, and destroy the capacitor, and do some
>serious damage to the lightly armored hull.. There has to be more
>to this than what was
>described, if it does work. Perhaps this is the "public"
>explanation regarding what is going on.
Dave the idea is that you use the Cap to build a massive potential
difference between the inner layer and outer layer. When the shaped
charge slug is forced through to the second layer, you get a massive
dump of current to the second layer from the first through the copper
slug. The copper slug gets vaporized by the huge current/voltage
difference. In theory, this should stop the shaped charge slug/jet
just as throwing a plate or opposing explosive charge at it does.
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Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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