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2014
Conference Paper
Titel
Pre-fragmented rod interaction with plate target
Abstract
The induction of yaw and fragmentation is the principal way how a long rod penetrator might be affected by an active protection system. The penetration capability of yawed rods has already been studied extensively in the past for normal as well as for oblique semiinfinite targets. In this paper, we address the basic effect of fragmentation without introducing much yaw. For this purpose, we chose a finite-thickness plate target of high obliquity as a generic but representative armor element and developed a technique for accelerating pre-fragmented rod penetrators against these targets. The obtained results indicate that for long rod fragmentation, even without introducing much pitch and yaw, a strong reduction of the penetration capability into a base armor element behind an oblique plate is to be expected.