Reactive armour
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Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour used for protecting vehicles, especially modern tanks, against anti-vehicle armour-piercing munitions.
M60A1 Patton tank with Israeli Blazer ERA
A Georgian T-72 tank layered with reactive armour bricks
Reactive armour "DYNA" for T-72 MBT
The advanced Kontakt-5 explosive reactive armour on this T-90S is arranged in pairs of plates, giving the turret its prominent triangular profile.
Tandem-charge
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A tandem-charge or dual-charge weapon is an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation, assisting it to penetrate either reactive armour on an armoured vehicle or strong
Reactive armour
…modules can withstand multiple hits, unlike ERA and SLERA. Reactive armour can be defeated with multiple hits in the same place, often achieved with tandem-charge weapons, which fire two or more shaped charges in rapid succession. Australia is the first recorded nation to have conceptualized and developed methods…
An RPG-29 and its PG-29V rocket with a tandem-charge warhead
The self-guided FGM-148 Javelin missile has a tandem-charge warhead.
The Storm Shadow missile uses a tandem-charge warhead to penetrate hardened structures.