| Transparent armor - Scotty Lives! [message #150033] |
Mi, 19 Oktober 2005 09:53 |
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Sounds an awful lot like transparent aluminum to me.
If this isn't the work of one Montgomery Scott, then my name isn't:
Bo Raxo
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in Bosnia, Houston Chronicle April 9, 1999.
http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=7223
Air Force testing new transparent armor
BY: Laura Lundin , Air Force Print News
10/18/2005
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFPN) -- Engineers here are testing a
new kind of transparent armor -- stronger and lighter than traditional
materials -- that could stop armor-piercing weapons from penetrating vehicle
windows.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing directorate
is testing aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a replacement for the
traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used in existing ground
and air armored vehicles.
The test are being done in conjunction with the Army Research Laboratory at
Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., and University of Dayton Research Institute,
Ohio.
ALONtm is a ceramic compound with a high compressive strength and
durability. When polished, it is the premier transparent armor for use in
armored vehicles, said. 1st Lt. Joseph La Monica, transparent armor
sub-direction lead
"The substance itself is light years ahead of glass," he said, adding that
it offers "higher performance and lighter weight."
Traditional transparent armor is thick layers of bonded glass. The new armor
combines the transparent ALONtm piece as a strike plate, a middle section of
glass and a polymer backing. Each layer is visibly thinner than the
traditional layers.
ALONtm is virtually scratch resistant, offers substantial impact resistance,
and provides better durability and protection against armor piercing
threats, at roughly half the weight and half the thickness of traditional
glass transparent armor, said the lieutenant.
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| Re: Transparent armor - Scotty Lives! [message #156011 ] |
Mo, 24 Oktober 2005 22:39 |
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In article <WXm5f.3378$4O1.2581 [at] newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>, "Bo Raxo" <invasions_r_us [at] thepentagon.removethis.com> wrote:
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>Sounds an awful lot like transparent aluminum to me.
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>If this isn't the work of one Montgomery Scott, then my name isn't:
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>Bo Raxo
Aye, but will it hold whales? There be whales here!!!!!
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