How Electromagnetic Armor Vaporizes RPGs

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What happened to electromagnetic tank armor? Imagine if an incoming RPG could be vaporized right when it touched your armor? This type of space-age star wars like force field has actually been in the works for over 20 years at various defense companies. In the early 2000’s the US military spent nearly $200 million dollars across several years on the technology. Conventional armor offers only limited protection against RPGs and shape chargers that shoot out a jet of hot copper at 5,000 mph. It can penetrate around 600 mm of your tank armor which means you need heavy thick armor everywhere . Meanwhile Electromagnetic armor would reduce your tanks total weight and give you the ability to stop multiple hits. So how far away is this technology from being adopted? Is electromagnetic armor practical and what are it’s limitations?

Written by: Chris Cappy
Edited by: Maksym

Here’s how electric armor works according to the research paper “DEFEATING THE RPG7 THREAT BY USING ELECTRIC POWER IN REACTIVE ARMOR APPLICATIONS” trigger warning some science talk is incoming time now: quote “ELRA consists of two parallel conducting plates connected to opposite poles of a charged high energy capacitor. They have a high voltage difference and are connected to an energy source between them. These plates are mounted on the basic armor. When the tip of the shaped charge jet hits the second plate (the inner plate) after having penetrated the first plate (the outer plate), it triggers an electric current that starts to flow through it.”
If you think I can’t dumb it down then you sir have underestimated how dumb I can get. So the incoming munition acts as the electric switch to trigger the armor causing large electric currents to flow into it. Basically the whole concept is when you’re out there driving around in your tank During normal operation, your high voltage power supply is charging your armor plates. This generates an extremely high voltage between the outer and inner armor plates. When someone fires off an RPG at you the munition hits your electric armor and completes the circuit which discharges the incredible amount of stored energy which is dumped into the munition and essentially vaporizes or liquifies it by causing it to expand 5 to 10 times its normal size.

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[koolski]

As a former tanker who took a leak off the side of my tank before crossing the line of departure in desert Storm, this sounds shocking for the family jewels!

[curtisbrown]

I gotta say, it sounds great for stopping rpg's, but if it's thin it could just bring back anti tank rifles

[Waldohasaskit]

The biggest advantage of this system is that the tank commander could shout "polarize the hull plating" all the time, just like in Star Trek Enterprise

[michaelrobson]

Props to your animator, those were super cool

[The_Greedy_Orphan]

Shout out to the unsung hero here, Chad Thunder🐓

[Paladin]

By the time such armor is feasible we may have to defeat plasma rifles.

[warrenreid]

This is one of those episodes where the commercial is just as important and informative as the main topic.

[RedVRCC]

One of the things I feel might happen with APFSDS is that it gets vaporized but since it's already moving so fast, it basically just turn it into a HEAT round.

[mrjmorovis]

I had an economics teacher at Foothill College in Los Gatos, CA. She was great and talked about how the US is resources rich but they are harder and thus more expensive to get and process. She said when it is economically infeasible to get the resources. When the price of those reousrces gets high enough extracting the resource becomes feasible.
She used as an example gold mines in the Southwest. Most of the time they are closed but when gold hits a specific price point they get opened again. They are left in operational state so mining can begin immediately when the price is right.

[BaHo_]

Please, next time you do a video on anything electricity-related, consider involving someone who:
a) Has basic understanding of how electricity works.
b) Can distinguish between "electromagnetic" and "electric".
c) Can tell the difference between kV and kW.

[BasedF-Pilot]

A double tap would render the armor useless. The first munition would be dumb frag/sabot type to destroy the electro plate, the second munition would have the shaped charge. Both in the same shot/missile. These double tap rounds already exist for reactive armor.

[jakobneubert]

Cappy, it holds the 20kw power in the capacitors so in between attacks it doesn't use any power. The issue is the capacitors take up a lot of space.

[willrogers]

DARPA was working on an RPG shield for light to medium duty vehicle called "Iron Curtain"...pretty cool

[Atmatan_Kabbaher]

Bro you get some of the most insane sponsors I've EVER seen in all my time on youtube

[poodlescone]

Basically if the armor can be factors cheaper than multiple missiles, it would be worth it.

It would not be economical against multiple cheap RPG rounds.

[SadBoys.]

i think this technology would be better suited to fortification of buildings, like towers, important infrastructure. etc etc

[buddyspecialops]

Been a viewer for a few years now, always good to see an upload from you. Happy to see the channel growing

[tll]

Having a stock analysis in the ad spot is a really pleasent surprise honestly

[AlwaysBastos]

At a rough guess based on fly-zappers, I would say the energy required to vapourise an AT round is huge.
The storage and rapid discharge (in the time it takes for the round to penetrate a few mm) are impractical for a vehicle but might be possible for fixed installations.

[atomicviking]

I would advise against naming an article detailing the technology "The Charge of the Light Brigade."