BALLISTIC PERFORMANCE OF MONOBLOCKAND JACKETED MEDIUM-CALIBER PENETRATORS AGAINST COMPOSITE ARMOR AND SPACED TARGETS

摘要

This paper presents ballistic performance data of L/D 20 and L/D 30 monoblock and of a L/D 40 jacketed medium-calibre penetrators against composite armor and spaced armor targets. With this contribution we complete our former studies restricted to the comparison of a L/D 20 and the L/D 40 jacketed penetrator. We selected SiC/GFRP and SiC/Ti as composite armor components. These were placed in a steel confinement and tested with both shaped charges and KE rods. The main purpose of these tests was to confirm the rather high mass equivalence factors we have got for the composite targets and to add new data of a L/D 30 monoblock rod with a slenderness comparable to the jacketed design to the existing data base.