Path: spln!lex!extra.newsguy.com!lotsanews.com!panix!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: artemis@kbnet.co.uk Delivery-Date: Thu Jul 25 15:03:32 2002 Delivery-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:03:31 -0700 for <sci-military-moderated@retro.com>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:03:30 -0700 (PDT) id 17XqOM-0003Vw-00 for sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:43:26 +0200 id <m17XqOM-00aby8C>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:43:26 +0200 (MEST) id <m17XqOL-001DZBC>; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:43:25 +0200 (MEST) To: sci-military-moderated@moderators.isc.org From: "Dirk Bruere" <artemis@kbnet.co.uk> Newsgroups: sci.military.moderated Subject: Re: Pulsed power circuit electric armour Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 22:50:51 +0100 Message-ID: <ahprdt$u3ejo$1@ID-120108.news.dfncis.de> References: <z1W%8.641034$352.136421@sccrnsc02> Reply-To: "Dirk Bruere" <artemis@kbnet.co.uk> X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc1-ntbe3-0-cust51.ltn.cable.ntl.com (62.255.181.51) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1027633405 31570552 62.255.181.51 (16 [120108]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Content-Length: 895 Lines: 23 NNTP-Posting-Host: 519bed0f.newsreader.tycho.net X-Trace: 1027633575 gemini.tycho.net 79561 205.179.181.194 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tycho.net Xref: spln sci.military.moderated:47215 "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? ;) It uses a high energy high power capacitor discharge through a simple coil to disrupt the jet of (usually) liquid copper. Once that is broken up it loses a lot of its ability to penetrate. It relies on the fact that the jet is a good conductor. If the jet was (say) a heavy metal ceramic it may not work. However, the latter IMO would be very difficult to develop and quite expensive compared to a normal HEAT round. OTOH a staged impact might work - the first triggers the defence, and then the real HEAT strikes. Dirk