From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2003 - 12:48:35 PDT
At 1:34 PM -0400 10/5/03, Amnon wrote:
>
>I always wanted to try this agains such attacks.
>If you take armor plates and construct a vehicle that is shaped like a low
>pyramid, with a wide base. Seems like anything that will hit it, no
>matter from
>what angle at ground level, (other than straight up like a mine) will get
>deflected, including RPG's and "force of a blast". Such armor will
>not need to
>be as thick. The lower parts (neer the bottom) can be made to slide up and
>down, and one can lower it to adapt to road driving or raise it for rougher
>terain.
This is not unlike any number of Mine resistant vehicles from South
Africa. Look at all of their vehicles, they're wheeled, armored and
designed to deal with anti-tank mines well. You loose the wheel
station, but the wheels are designed to shear off and new ones be
re-attached in something like an hour or less of work.
Ratel
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/ratel.htm
Okapi
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/okapi.htm
Rooikat
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/rooikat.htm
G6 Rhino
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/g6.htm
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