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Kanchan Armour is the name informally given to a modular composite armour developed by India. The armour uses the same principle as the British Chobham armour, but the composition is different.〔(Kanchan armor ), frontierindia.net〕 The armour got its name from Kanchan Bagh,〔http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/place?ftid=0x3bcba29d6e18be0d:0x4581fdc1badae0c0&q=Kanchan+Bagh,+Hyderabad&gl=uk&ei=tgLgS7rKJ4eD_Aaf1bmcCA&sll=17.333092,78.506447&sspn=0.021303,0.032015&ie=UTF8&ll=17.335471,78.501617&spn=0,0&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A〕 Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, where the Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) is located. Although the construction details of the armour remain a secret, it has been described as being made by sandwiching composite panels between rolled homogeneous armour (RHA). The number of layers may vary based on the user requirements. This armour is able to defeat armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) and high-explosive anti-tank warhead (HEAT) rounds and is believed to withstand armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS).〔 During development in the 1980s, Kanchan armour defeated a 106 mm recoilless rifle which was tried on the Arjun Tank. During trials in 2000, the armour was able to withstand a hit from a T-72 tank at point blank range, and was able to defeat all available high-explosive squash head (HESH) and APFSDS rounds, which included Israeli APFSDS rounds.〔Arjun (tank)#Protection〕 This armour is lightweight and compact. A new honeycomb structure design of non-explosive and non-energetic reactive armour (NERA) is reportedly being tested on Arjun tanks .〔http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/india/arjun-mk-ii.htm〕 ==Protection== When a projectile is fired, the armour stops it via compression and decompression method. As the projectile hits the armour, it faces compression because of the RHA, and then it faces decompression because of the composite. When the projectile passes through several such sandwiched layers, it breaks up the APDS or HEAT shot. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kanchan armour」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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