Armouring
AssigneeDenel (Proprietary) Limited
InventorVernon Peregrin Joynt
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Abstract
An up-armouring kit is suitable for use in protecting a protected zone behind a base 24 against a self forming fragment type landmine. The up-armouring kit comprises an outer wear plate 12, which is advantageously of armour plating of a composition and thickness suitable to prevent penetration by small arm bullets including light machine gun bullets; an inner catch plate 18 of a material having a ductility of at least about 8%; and an intermediate impact absorbing layer 16 of a material selected from the group consisting of a ceramic material, a refractory material, a glass based material and glass. The wear plate, the impact absorbing layer and the catch plate are bonded together in that order to form a sandwich construction (22).
Claims12
Up-armouring kit suitable for use in protecting a protected zone behind a base against the effects of a self forming fragment type landmine, that is against a projectile of high mass formed by a portion of a shell of the landmine and travelling at high speed, and against a large blast due to explosives, the up-armouring kit comprising
- an outer wear plate in the form of armour plating of solid construction and of a composition and thickness suitable to prevent penetration by small arm bullets including light machine gun bullets;
- an inner catch plate of a material having a ductility higher than a ductility of the outer wear plate, which ductility of said inner catch plate is at least about 8%;
- an intermediate impact absorbing layer of a material selected from the group consisting of a ceramic material, a refractory material, a glass based material and glass;
- the wear plate, the impact absorbing layer and the catch plate being bonded together in said order to form a sandwich construction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.