Explosive reactive armor is widely used on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles to defeat incoming warheads, but concerns ...

The boxy explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks around the sides of the hull, known as Bradley Reactive Armor Tiles (BRAT), are but one component of a fully equipped BUSK M2. The ERA, like its Russian ...

First came Russia’s “turtle tank”, a metal shed rumbling across the battlefield. Then Ukraine laughed at the so-called “hairy ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed explosive reactive armor as a way of quickly adding protection to tanks and other heavier armored vehicles. ERA works by, well, exploding. When an incoming ...

Russian troops are struggling to properly fit their tanks with Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA), adding to "heavy attrition" in combat, according to Britain's Ministry of Defense. Russia has become ...

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The Ukrainian army is up-armoring its American-made M-1A1 Abrams tanks—with a layer of explosive reactive armor. The ERA—sandwiches of plastic-explosive and steel that explode outward when struck—can ...

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In additino to that, as compared to Russian tanks, the Leopards lack explosive reactive armor and thus are vulnerable to Russian Vikhr and Ataka missiles employed by Russian combat aircraft to ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Russia’s new T-14 Armata tank finally does present a peer challenge to the Abrams. Back in the 1990s I recall reading Tom Clancy’s loving paean to the M1 Abrams, ...

The ‘Tankbuster’ still lives up to its name. Results of recent live fire testing by the US Air Force (USAF) found that, 50 years after its inception, A-10C Thunderbolts can still crack open the armour ...

Summary and Key Points: As the Russo-Ukraine War enters its third year, Russia faces an unsustainable loss of tanks, forcing it to redeploy Cold War-era T-62 tanks with additional armor. However, the ...