Vehicle Self-protection

摘要

As vehicles reach their upper weight limits and digitisation and power generation of platforms increases, there is a growing preference for advanced self-protection technologies that sense, and possibly intercept, a threat before it strikes. MT investigates.The Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts were a significant period for armoured vehicle design, as many NATO land forces involved in these campaigns realised their existing inventories were not adequately protected against the threats they faced. This was particularly the case for protection against asymmetric weapons, such as improvised EFPs as well underbody blasts from buried anti-vehicles mines and lEDs.