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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Chobham Armor
Message-ID: <1990Nov21.223549.22608@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 22:35:49 GMT
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From: megazone@wpi.WPI.EDU (MEGAZONE 23)

In article <1990Nov20.015035.23678@cbnews.att.com> MEDELMA@CMS.CC.WAYNE.EDU (Michael Edelman) writes:
>HEAT rounds with a two-stage warhead designed to expend the reactive armor
>before the main charge blows, and two stage reactive armor designed to
>defeat two-stage HEAT rounds. I don't know if any of this is actually a

I read that the Tow2 and possibly some I-TOW1s are fitted with the double
charge. The first is set off when the probe contacts the armor. This sets
off the armor prematurely and it is very dissapated when the penetrating
charge goes off.

Does anyone have any information on reactive armors effects against the
hypervelocity kinetic kill rockets?

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