TRANSPARENT ARMOR FOR THE NEW STANDARD IN BATTLEFIELD PERFORMANCE

摘要

Armor Transparent Purchase Description (ATPD) 2352 revision P1 was issued in July 2008 to create a new standard for transparent armor aimed at improving battlefield performance, maintenance costs, equipment survivability, and general durability based on data collected from performance of transparent armor in the battlefield. A transparent armor specifically focused on satisfying all of the ATPD 2352 requirements was invented, developed, and commercialized. A Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with TARDEC resulted in evaluating armor to all the metrics of ATPD 2352. This paper reports on this initial and subsequent work and; a) explains the requirements of ATPD 2352 and the challenges they present from a materials properties, armor performance, lifetime testing, transparency, durability, and environmental perspective; b) presents data, analysis, and preliminary modeling showing the materials and performance properties of a variety of materials to highlight how and why a discontinuously nano-reinforced glass system was able to pass all the requirements; c) describes the tests and presents test data on the key tests performed for ATPD 2352, including ballistic, environmental, and optical, many never successfully mastered in transparent armor before.