It’s clear some Russian troops don’t know how their armor works. Photos that recently circulated online depict Russian Gaz-66 trucks wearing blocks of explosive reactive armor. The armor won ...

A UAZ-452 with reactive armor on its windshield. Those Russian army Gaz-66 trucks wearing blocks of explosive reactive armor—explosive reactive armor that, when struck, would destroy the trucks ...

But this design, known as the Reactive Stiffening Armor ... be effective against kinetic rounds). An explosion outside a tank is one thing. But body armor? To stop armor-piercing bullets, you ...

February 13, 2006: The U.S. Army is equipping 150 of its Stryker wheeled armored vehicles with ERA (Explosive Reactive Armor.) Invented by the Israelis ... is disrupted and rendered harmless by the ...

Although their armor is limited, the Ukrainian modifications, such as reactive armor blocks ... armor must withstand the ...

The reason was that the shell’s explosive force was vulnerable to a counter-explosion in the opposite direction. In the 1950s the USSR began to develop the first systems of reactive tank armor.

BERGEN-HOHNE TRAINING AREA, Germany -- Soldiers with the 527 Military Police Company, 709th Military Police Battalion, 18th Military Police Brigade, participated in an Abrams Reactive Armor Tile ...

With the new armour, the reactive armour unit’s explosion will not be critical," the source said. The Moscow-based Steel Research Institute said previously that the Armata tank’s armour ...