X-Nico

3 unusual facts about vehicle armour


Applications of capacitors

Experimental work is under way using banks of capacitors as power sources for electromagnetic armour and electromagnetic railguns or coilguns.

Endcliffe Hall

Brown had acquired considerable wealth and prestige from the manufacture of armour plate from Bessemer steel at his Atlas Works in the city and wanted to build a private residence to reflect his position as one of the Nouveau riche industrialist of the Victorian Age.

Fouzi Ayoub Sabri

Fouzi Ayoub Sabri is a Saudi Arabian Businessman, Engineer and Car designer who found and owns Al-Araba Company for Vehicle costumizing and Vehicle armouring.


Appliqué

Appliqué armour, in military use, consists of extra protective plates mounted onto the hull or turret of an Armoured fighting vehicle.

Raketenjagdpanzer 2

Starting around 1978, 316 of them were upgraded with additional armour and a new missile system, and redesignated as Raketenjagdpanzer Jaguar 1.


see also

PL-01

The vehicle armour has a modular ceramic-aramid shell, which is designed to provide protection compatible with NATO standard STANAG 4569 Annex A at level 5+ within the front portion of the hull and turret.