Active armor system

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2006-08-11

2010-10-26

Clement, Michelle (Department: 3641)

Ordnance

Shields

With explosive device

C089S036010, C089S036020, C089S036070, C089S036080, C428S911000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07819050

ABSTRACT:
An improvement in an electric armor system designed to prevent, among other things, a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) from penetrating the hull of a fighting vehicle. The system includes a self-clearing electrode that will make the system less vulnerable to non-plasma objects that might otherwise short out the active armor electrodes. It optionally further allows for the early initiation of current flow at the point of penetration making it even easier to defeat incoming threats by allowing more time to break-up an incoming plasma jet.

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