Patent ID: 7661350
Filing Date: 2010-02-16
Classification: F41H

Abstract:
1. A module for embodying a lightweight reactive armour plating against hollow charges, a hollow charge producing a jet when it penetrates the armour, the jet comprising a head, said module comprising: at least one electrically conducting external wall and one electrically conducting internal wall, said walls being spaced from one another and forming two electrodes between which a very high voltage is applied by a power supply, said voltage being large enough to establish in the jet produced by a hollow charge and shorting the two electrodes a current sufficient to heat the jet up to vaporization, said module further comprising an internal tridimensional lightweight mechanical structure, electrically conducting, in electrical contact with an inner surface of the internal wall said structure being configured to cause a quasi-continuous electrical destructive interaction with the head of the hollow charge jet during its penetration inside said structure.