Loading patent…
AssigneeRUAG Schweiz AG
InventorsMarc RADSTAKE, Hanspeter KAUFMANN
Estimating the term…
Lightly armored vehicles and stationary objects are often the target of attacks by hollow-charge projectiles. Numerous variants of armor plating have been developed to counter such attacks, which results in additional loads, and these require expensive production. A light protective layer (1) which is simple to produce contains rods (3) arranged in a matrix, which project out from the object to be protected. If a corresponding hollow-charge projectile hits such a protective layer (1), the front nose (101) thereof is damaged, so that in most cases the initiation of the hollow charge does not occur. Preferably the rods (3) are covered externally by polymer layers (9, 10) and additionally a crumple layer (8) is attached in front of the object to be protected.
A protective layer for protection of an object against a warhead fired from a firing direction toward the object, the warhead comprising an active projectile having a tip and a selected calibre according to the warhead in a range from 40 mm to 105 mm, the protective layer comprising metallic rods arranged in a matrix and projecting from the object to be protected, each rod having an end region remote from the object to be protected with an at least partially galvanically conductive surface, wherein the rods project beyond an upper inner surface of the protective layer, wherein a diagonal distance between the rods is less than the calibre of the projectile and greater than the tip of the projectile, and wherein the rods are mounted and directed approximately into the firing direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.