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Russia has developed a new armour to increase protection against anti-tank rockets as the RPG TASS 11012154.
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Defence & Security News - Russia
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| Russia has developed a new armour to increase protection against anti-tank rockets as the RPG. | |||
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The newly developed product of the Steel Research Institute /incorporated by the Tractor Plants Concern/ will protect the Russian armor against anti-tank rocket-propelled grenades with a shaped-charge warhead, the Concern press service has told TASS.
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 The result of RPG-7 attack against BMP armoured vehicle |
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The development was dubbed Mantiya /Mantle/. This consists of a panel with discrete metallic volumetric protective elements and a masking mantle reducing the armor’s visual signature.
The panel is put at a distance of 50 to 1,500 mm from the object. Once an anti-tank grenade hits the panel the protective elements operate against the grenade body and its cumulative unit. The small surface density of the panel prevents the grenade operation as the fuze contacts the base. This breaks the fuze electric circuit and partially destroys the cumulative unit. As a result, the warhead fuze fails and the cumulative jet is dispersed. The RPG-7/RPG-7V grenade kill probability varies between 50 and 60 percent. The use of a dedicated masking cover reduces by 2-3 times the probability of detection and acquisition, by infrared homing heads, of armor fitted with the Mantiya system. The probability and range of detection by the radar are reduced by more than six times. In this case, the thermal signature of equipment associated with Mantiya is virtually imperceptible. A source within the defense industry has told TASS that an experimental lot of T-14 Armata-based main battle tanks has already gotten the Mantiya system. |
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