Stillbrew armor consists of plates of steel-titanium alloy mounted over the tank cast steel hull or turret structure, with a thick layer of a special type of rubber in between as a sandwich. It was manufactured in England and used for the first time in the 1980s to upgrade the Chieftain Mk 9 into the [...]

MEXAS stands for Modular Expandable Armor System, which is a ceramic composite armor designed and developed by IBD Deisenroth, a German firm. Introduced in 1994, MEXAS armor has been used worldwide for the protection of military vehicles. Normally overlaid on rolled homogeneous steel armor, MEXAS is composed of a splinter foil-like specialized Nylon, ceramics (Aluminum [...]

Chobham is type of armor used on advanced main battle tanks, such as the British Challenger 2 and the American M1 Abrams tanks. Although it was developed in the United Kingdom, it was first used by the US Army on the Abrams. The Chobham armor consists of ceramic tiles encased within a metal matrix and [...]

An element of explosive reactive armor (ERA) consists of a slab of high explosive sandwiched between two metal plates, called the reactive or dynamic elements. On attack by a penetrating weapon, the explosive detonates, forcibly driving the metal plates apart to damage the penetrator. Against a shaped charge, the projected plates disrupt the metallic jet [...]