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An IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer equipped with slat armor surrounding its driver's cab. Slat armor (or slat armour in British English), also known as bar armor, cage armor, and standoff armor, is a type of vehicle armor designed to protect against high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) attacks, as used by anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
When soldiers saw the armor system, they were skeptical and concerned about its effectiveness. On September 19, a vehicle patrol equipped with Q-Nets was ambushed. At less than 100 meters distance, insurgents fired a volley of RPG rounds, followed by machine gun fire and then another RPG.
The RPG-7 can fire a variety of warheads for anti-armor (HEAT, PG-Protivotankovaya Granata) or anti-personnel (HE, OG-Oskolochnaya Granata) purposes, usually fitting with an impact (PIBD) and a 4.5 second fuze.
The D9 armour deflected RPG rockets and even 9K11 Malyutka (AT-3 Sagger) ATGMs. Slat armour is designed to protect against anti-tank rocket and missile attacks, where the warhead is a shaped charge. The slats are spaced so that the warhead is either partially deformed before detonating, or the fuzing mechanism is damaged, thereby preventing ...
The front and the side of the SENA 200 can be also fitted with an anti-RPG nets (Rocket Propelled Grenade), which can be installed on each side of the vehicle. The nets, made of aramid fibers reinforced with steel masses, are said to achieve an 85% probability of protection and to defeat RPGs by disrupting their fusing mechanism as the incoming ...
The AT4 [a] is a Swedish 84 mm (3.31 in) unguided, man-portable, disposable, shoulder-fired recoilless anti-tank weapon manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics (formerly: FFV Ordance, later, Bofors Anti-Armour Systems). [5] [unreliable source?] The AT4 is not a rocket launcher strictly speaking, because the explosive warhead is not propelled by a ...
Yasin (RPG) Hamas — Palestine Reusable 2004 85 mm It is a variant of the RPG-2 [8] MRO: NPO Bazalt Russia Disposable 2003 72.5 mm Further evolution of the RPO-A Shmel. Variants: MRO-A (thermobaric) MRO-O (WP Smoke warhead), MRO-Z (Incendiary warhead) [9] RPG-28: NPO Bazalt Russia Disposable 2011 125 mm [10] RPG-30: NPO Bazalt Russia ...
Note the add-on belly armor M551 Sheridan of the 3/4th Cavalry, December 1969 (note the anti-RPG screen) The U.S. Army staff in Washington had been recommending since 1966 to the commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam , General Westmoreland , that the Sheridan should be used there.