Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!gemini.tycho.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Approved: sci-military-moderated@retro.com Organization: Sci Military Moderated Return-Path: Emmanuel.Gustin@skynet.be Delivery-Date: Thu Jul 25 11:50:39 2002 Delivery-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:50:39 -0700 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:50:37 -0700 (PDT) id 17XnNf-0007Re-00 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:30:31 +0200 id <m17XnNf-00aby2C>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:30:31 +0200 (MEST) id <m17XnNe-001DZBC>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:30:30 +0200 (MEST) To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org From: "Emmanuel Gustin" <Emmanuel.Gustin@skynet.be> Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: Pulsed power circuit electric armour Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 20:34:52 +0200 Message-ID: <ahpg46$u3f3j$1@ID-52877.news.dfncis.de> References: <z1W%8.641034$352.136421@sccrnsc02> X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80-200-83-8.adsl.powered-by.skynet.be (80.200.83.8) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1027621830 31571059 80.200.83.8 (16 [52877]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Content-Length: 910 Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 7295be80.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1027625325 gemini.tycho.net 79562 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:47210 "Andrew Rhines" <arhines@zzz.com.ru> wrote in message news:z1W%8.641034$352.136421@sccrnsc02... > I saw this over at theengineer.co.uk: > http://www.e4engineering.com/item.asp?id=45962&type=news > Any thoughts? I can't figure out how charging the armour would disrupt an > 11km/s spike of copper, maybe its something like "polarized hull plating" > ala star trek? ;) My guess is that this system does plate the armour with a condensator: isolating layer, positive charge, isolating layer, negative charge, isolating layer. When the spike disrupts the layers the 'condensator' would discharge over the metal jet, vaporizing part of it and maybe disrupting it before it can penetrate much deeper. That might work. Countermeasure: Fire two rounds instead of one. -- Emmanuel Gustin <Emmanuel.gustin -@- skynet.be> Military Aircraft Database, Fighter Guns Page on http://users.skynet.be/Emmanuel.Gustin/