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Early Access: Ceramic Armor (Patreon)

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Ceramics at first glance don't seem be a particularly good material for armor, especially not for tank armor, considering how brittle they can be. Of course, there is difference between our "household" ceramics and technical ceramics, still various properties like brittleness remain. In this video Professor Paul Hazell (UNSW Canberra) and I talk about how ceramic armor can be used against shaped charges, but also kinetic rounds. We also look at strength and weaknesses in comparison to steel. Cover Photo by Cpl Tyler L. Main, Marines from 4th Tank Division, Twentynine Palms, Calif., roll down a dirt road on their M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank during a day of training at Exercise Africa Lion 2012. License Public Domain: https://www.flickr.com/photos/dinfos_showcase/8615598767/sizes/o/ Modification by MHV: horizontal flip. »» GET OUR BOOKS «« » Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - http://stukabook.com » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized »» SOURCES «« Hazell, Paul J.: Armour: Materials, Theory, and Design. 2nd Edition, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 2022. https://routledge.pub/Armour Crouch, Ian G.: The Science of Armour Materials. Woodhead Publishing: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2017. Bird, Lorrin Rexford; Livingston, Robert D.: World War II Ballistics: Armor and Gunnery. Second Edition, Overmatch Press: Albany, New York, USA, 2001. #CeramicArmor,#Armor101,#tanks 00:00 Intro 00:33 Disruptor & Absorber 01:30 Face Hardened Armor 02:09 Ceramics Basics 03:57 Layering of Ceramic Armor 04:15 HEAT Penetration Visualized Panzerfaust 05:03 Ceramic Armor how it would be used 07:10 How Multi-Layer Armor defeats a shaped charge 08:30 Cone Formation 09:01 Use of Ceramics versus Kinetic Rounds? 10:07 First wide-scale Military Use 10:47 Strength & Weaknesses compared to Metal 11:37 Summary

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Raul Ramos

Cool video. The whole armour thingy is super sneaky and thus it is difficult to get any proper access to it. On the other hand it is sort of interesting on the design / construction of these vehicles. The properties needed for the vehicle Hull are not available on these materials and the machining is terribly complicated and construction depts usually have no access to the details. The current solution of appliqué armour is, in my opinion, partially driven by those circumstances. Sure that the material properties are not adequate for structural application but it is really an independent development. It is kind of a pain in the ass, because using appliqué means there can be no protrusions in the Hull and those which must be, have to take the appliqué into consideration. The modularity though is a good thing. Depending on what you want to do (at least on paper) you can equip the vehicle with "bespoke" or mission relevant appliqué

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> The modularity though is a good thing. Depending on what you want to do > (at least on paper) you can equip the vehicle with "bespoke" or mission relevant > appliqué Yeah, I completely agree and then suspect that in the "real world", it is likely something that won't really have much benefits since the overheard is quite large and also the risk involved quite high. Once we have energy shielding it might be a thing, e.g., to activate a shield type depending on the current threat out there to optimize protection.