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Frag Kit 6 adds about 1,000 lb (450 kg) of extra weight (100 lb per sq ft) and 12 inches (300 mm) of width on each side of the vehicle (2 feet overall) over the previous Frag Kit 5 Humvee armor. The doors are so heavy, troops may need a mechanical assist device to open and close them and so wide drivers may require built-in visual references so ...
The Frag 5 armor upgrade included four 600-pound doors with additional plating of homogeneous steel armor, battle-tested with the Marine Armor Kit on the HMMWV A2 series. [3] Frag Kit 5 helped slow the incoming projectile and contain some of the shrapnel, preventing the vehicle from becoming a secondary source of fragmentation during attacks.
Improvised armour added to a truck by railway shop workers for the Danish resistance movement near the end of World War II. Improvised vehicle armour is a form of vehicle armour consisting of protective materials added to a vehicle such as a car, truck, or tank in an irregular and extemporized fashion using available materials.
Vehicle composite add-on armour kit. Appliqué armour, [15] or add-on armour, consists of extra plates mounted onto the hull or turret of an AFV. The plates can be made of any material and are designed to be retrofitted to an AFV to withstand weapons that can penetrate the original armour of the vehicle.
The Armor Survivability Kit consisted of armored steel doors with bullet-proof glass, protective armored plating, and a ballistic windshield and came in either a two-door kit variant (weighing 900 pounds/409 kilograms) or a four-door kit variant (weighing 1,300 pounds/590 kilograms). [1] [2]
An IDF Caterpillar D9 armored bulldozer equipped with slat armor surrounding its driver's cab. Slat armor (or slat armour in British English), also known as bar armor, cage armor, and standoff armor, is a type of vehicle armor designed to protect against high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) attacks, as used by anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
Within the Ministry of Defence (MoD), Chobham usually refers specifically to the non-explosive reactive armor & ceramic composites, while Dorchester is usually in reference to additional armour packages, primarily composed of explosive reactive armour and spaced armour, although these are often conflated when in colloquial usage.
Following initial combat performance, 7,500 kits were ordered and produced at a rate of 1,000 per month. [3] In February 2011, the U.S. Army ordered 829 nets for use on the Navistar MaxxPro. [4] In May 2012, QinetiQ received a contract for 420 more Q-Net kits. They have been used on Humvees, RG-31s, M-ATVs, and other armored vehicles. [5]