Patent ID: 8272311

Claim:
Reactive armor comprising: a casing having a plurality of walls, a back, and a rectangular shaped cavity formed therebetween; a cover that closes the cavity and forms a strike face; a filler placed within the cavity, the filler comprising a disruptive material; and an explosive, wherein the cavity includes sheets of the explosive having edges facing the strike face and sheets of the filler having edges facing the strike face, the sheets of the explosive and the sheets of the filler are arranged and positioned in four first groupings within the casing such that (i) the sheets of the explosive and the filler in successive quadrants of adjacent first groupings are perpendicular to one another, and (ii) the placement of the sheets of the explosive when viewed from the strike face is implemented as a pair of broken-Ts having the cross bar and the vertical bar of the T separated by one or more sheets of filler, where sheets of the explosive are sandwiched substantially centrally within of the sheets of the filler in the first groupings, and the broken-Ts are oriented upside down with respect to each other.