07-13-2016, 12:26 AM
(07-13-2016, 12:10 AM)OdinYggd Wrote:(07-13-2016, 12:00 AM)Surge Wrote: Spaced armor, especially angled like that, has always been more effective than block armor.
Bridge trusses carry significantly more weight than a solid block of metal with the same dimensions as the truss. Engineering at work.
In the case of composite armor, the plates are overlapped in a way that is intended to try and maximize ricochet so that when a plate is breached the debris bounce off the layer behind it in order to dissapate that energy and prevent it from penetrating the next layer.
I don't think they would be air gap in between though, I would expect a ballistic foam or a gel between slabs of armor- again in order to rob as much energy as possible from the projectile/debris to prevent it from breaching the next layer.
I'm not sure, I've seen some of the T72's turret have different types of metal cast into the turret which eliminates the need of gel suspension for the spacing
I've also seen some version of the T72's turret have special slots for composite plates on the frontal sides as well