What they've done essentially, with the
Chinese designations for ERA "
FY-4" is add
10mm more, to each of the two
armored steel plates that make up the ERA "
panel/case". The term used to describe the plates (And please from memory.) is "
flyer/orflyers" which when struck, will shift to break up the jets causing disruption to the warhead thus reducing it's penetration into the
RHA armor.
Earlier versions and the Chinese model from the ref below
in general follows the history of
ERA which started with just
Steel plates.
Paras 4-6 get to the issue.
https://www.armyrecognition.com/weap...mmunition.html
There are three other types (That I'm familiar with,
NERA,
NxRA and
SLERA. These have their advantages and many consider them to be better and or superior to
ERA. What can't be denied is they're all
much lighter. The following covers these in an easy manner, I hope is at the end of the article,
you'll see were it's sourced from.
Also though, as I've heard of the technology involved I couldn't remember the names they are also in this article as I've
just read it.
So under "
Reactive armor technologies under development for battle tanks" you'll find what you want,
if you want it.
https://www.asminternational.org/doc...e-e94395d1bb3f
The above comes from the
USA Research community, note the sources at the end of each article.
I just don't know yet how much of a difference those 10mm's are going to make a difference. are we talking as a matter of
increasing the
ERA package as in the game now for the
VT-4, by a factor of
10%, 15% or 20% I just don't have the information now to make a "
good educated guess". I am pretty sure that it probably won't be more then
20% - 25% at best.
And I'm not "keen" on that 25% until I break out my calculator.
Regards,
Pat
