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When an anti-tank shell explodes on standard armour, the copper cone of its head is projected as a powerful jet of metal that travels at five miles a second. This jet focuses an immense amount of energy on a tiny area and so can slice easily through several feet of dense metal, causing devastation inside a tank.
However, on striking smart armour a shell would produce a very different reaction. Firstly, it would sever optical cables in the mat below the tank's outer plastic cover. This would trigger sensors to activate electrical capacitors inside the tank which would send a mighty electrical current surging through the metal coils at the base of the smart armour.
Znachit snachala idet plastikovaya shkura, a pod ney optovolokonnye sensory, pri povrejdenii kotoryh kondensatory razryajayutsya... vyvod: ih nado razryadit'
zaranee, t.e. k boycu s PTURom nujno pristavit' boyca s SVD, naprimer, ili prosto s avtomatom ili granatoy, esli iz zasady
Kstati, posle srabatyvaniya takoy sistemy tank (zashishennaya ego chast') budet ochen' sil'no namagnichen.
A massive electromagnetic field would be created inside the armour, as the high-velocity copper jet begins to pass through it. This field would induce electrical currents in the copper.
'If you get enough current into the copper, you can heat it up and start pinching it in certain regions, making it unstable,' states Mike Zoltowski, of the Army Research Laboratory, in the New Scientist article. The thin copper jet would be flattened and broadened out and so would be unable to cut through the thin standard plating at the base of the smart armour.
Ne znayu skol'ko [mikro/milli]sekund struya budet prohodit' skvoz' metall, no sil'no nagret' ee za eto vremya bol'she chem ona uje nagreta budet trudno. Pri etom v brone nujno sozdavat' tokovedushie kanaly s ochen' nizkim soprotivleniem, ili sloyami ee delat', kak ran'she transformatory, chto nikak ne dobavit ey prochnosti (imho). I kanaly eti doljny byt' glubokimi, inache oni prosto ne uspeyut nagret' struyu metalla. K tomu je, struya budet UJE v metalle, i rasshiryat'sya v nem ey budet trudno, t.e. dolgo (imho), a skorost' ee pri etom ne snijaetsya
Essentially, electromagnets would be used to dissipate the energy of an anti-tank missile or shell, like the force shields that protect the fictional Starship Enterprise.
'This kind of development is now seen as urgent by military planners,' Chris Foss, editor of Jane's Armour and Artillery, said. 'For example, some countries are working on "top attack" missiles which fly over the turret of an oncoming tank instead of striking it front on, where it is most strongly shielded. They would drop their payloads on the tank's relatively unprotected turret area.'
To protect against that, designers would be forced to add even more thick armour plating to these other parts of the tank, adding to its weight and fuel consumption and making it more unwieldy. The answer is magnetic pulses, says Zoltowski. 'The benefit is that you wouldn't need 800 millimetres of steel armour.'
Posle etogo mogut vernut'sya k bolvankam vremen WW2, t.k. oni vozmojno prosh'yut etu umnuyu bronyu starym metodom - gruboy siloy
Ochen' pohoje chto iz etogo mojet nichego tolkovogo (dlya tankov) ne poluchit'sya. Kondensatory, kstati, potrebuyutsya nehilyh razmerov i ves'ma neudachnoy struktury s tochki zreniya massogabaritnyh parametrov. A esli oni "sluchayno" vzorvutsya, to tank i bez snaryada razorvet na kuski (mestami), t.k. energii v nih do...