COMPOSITE ARMOUR Russian patent published in 2008 - IPC F41H5/04 

FIELD: protective means.

SUBSTANCE: there are suggested a composite armour, containing a crushing-deflecting layer and an arresting layer. The crushing-deflecting layer consists of separate corundum components made as cylinders with one or two convex ends connected into a united panel by means of a binding on a polymer base and arranged with their axes along normal to an exterior surface of the armour. The arresting layer is made out of aluminium alloy or steel. The crushing-deflecting and arresting layers are arranged with a gap of more, than 1 mm, or a layer of a material with a coefficient of elasticity at compression less, than 40 GPa is placed between the said layers.

EFFECT: invention upgrades efficiency of armour.

3 cl, 3 dwg