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    is explosive reactive armour (ERA), but variants include self-limiting explosive reactive armour (SLERA), non-energetic reactive armour (NERA), non-explosive...
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  • Electric armour or electromagnetic armour is a type of reactive armour proposed for the protection of ships and armoured fighting vehicles from shaped...
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    Nizh (Ukrainian: Ніж, lit. 'knife') is a brand of explosive reactive armour designed by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau and manufactured...
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  • Non-explosive reactive armour (NxRA), also known as non-energetic reactive armor (NERA), is a type of vehicle armor used by modern main battle tanks and...
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    Composite armour used on modern Western and Israeli main battle tanks largely consists of non-explosive reactive armour (NERA) elements - a type of Reactive armour...
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    multiple non-explosive reactive armour plates (NERA), which sandwich a layer of elastomer (like rubber) between two plates of steel armour. This was shown to...
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    reactive armor & ceramic composites, while Dorchester is usually in reference to additional armour packages, primarily composed of explosive reactive...
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  • Obiekt 187 (section Armour)
    The passive armour was supplemented by the new Malakhit explosive reactive armour, a prototype of the present Relikt, and by the Shtora active protection...
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    T-72 (section Armour)
    explosive reactive armour. Lacks satellite navigation. T-72B3 model 2016 or T-72B3M Upgrade for T-72B3, with Relikt explosive reactive armour on the sides...
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    Kontakt-5 (category Vehicle armour)
    explosive reactive armour (ERA) originating in the Soviet Union. Due to the shortcomings of Kontakt-1, NII Stali further developed the reactive armor to...
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  • penetrate either reactive armour on an armoured vehicle or strong structures. Tandem charges are effective against reactive armour, which is designed...
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    500 mm homogeneous steel armour, and the explosive reactive armour is around 700 mm. The front turret has wedge-shaped armour similar to other contemporary...
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    T-80 (section Armour)
    by a second generation of explosive reactive armour called Kontakt-5, which can reduce the penetration of armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot...
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    parts covered with reactive armour, significantly increasing the tank's protection against RPGs and HEAT ammunition. The reactive armour added to the tank...
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    include a blend of steel and composite armour, smoke grenade dischargers, Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armour (ERA) and the Shtora infrared anti-tank...
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    "Kontakt-1" reactive armour and "Tucha" 81-mm smoke grenade launchers on the left of the turret. T-64BM2 or Ob'yekt 447AM-2 – "Kontakt-5" reactive armour, rubber...
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    surviving counter-measures such as explosive-reactive armor. While penetrator geometry has adapted to reactive armour counter-measures, tungsten heavy alloy...
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    not spread widely.[citation needed] A special version of reactive spaced armour is slat armour. It uses the power of the impacting projectile (RPG, ATGM)...
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    the T-72M include a new dual-axis stabilized fire-control system, reactive armour, a more powerful engine, transmission and new automatic loader. Unlike...
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    of protection: passive, reactive and active. The innermost layer consists of all-welded steel armour covered by passive armour modules. The second layer...
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    Tank (section Armour)
    disrupt it. Tandem warheads defeat reactive armour by causing the armour to detonate prematurely. Modern reactive armour protects itself from Tandem warheads...
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    armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges. As a result of this, the main battle...
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    T-62 (section Armour)
    explosive reactive armour (ERA) on the sides of the hull, the glacis plate, and in the front of the turret (where it replaces the BDD appliqué armour). T-62MV-1...
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    and AS2 incorporate newly domestically developed modular explosive reactive armour, a modern battlefield management and fire-control system, a remote...
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    including naval armour, body armour, and vehicle armour. The first major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armour carried on...
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  • composite armour, which incorporates air spaces and materials such as ceramics or plastics in addition to steel, and explosive reactive armour. For the...
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  • example, T-80BK is the command version of the T-80B. Versions with reactive armour have V added, for vzryvnoy ("explosive"), for example T-80BV. Less-expensive...
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    modern main battle tanks (MBTs), especially those with reactive armour, unless weaker sections of armour are exploited. The launcher and projectile are manufactured...
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    better electrical system and brakes, and the capability of installing reactive armour completed the modifications. They had American radios and either the...
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    Kontakt-1 (category Vehicle armour)
    Kontakt-1 (Russian: Контакт-1; GRAU indice: 4S20) is an explosive reactive armour (ERA) created in 1982 by Soviet NII Stali to protect tanks from shaped...
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