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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Dynamic Electric Armor Technology or "DEA" as it is more casually referred to is an active protection system technology developed by the ancient historic Unified Gwerin Ecumene in response to the widespread employment of tandem warhead charges in an attempt to defeat composite and reactive armor. The dynamic electric armor technology is typically applied widely to vehicle, starfighter and vehicle armor as a means of protecting against unguided and guided munitions particularly missiles or other projectiles that exploit the function of shaped-charge, kinetic-penetration or tandem-charge technology which is widely used as part of Anti-tank warfare. Throughout the history of armored vehicle protection various organisations, governments and businesses have attempted to solve for the myriad of kinetic threats that are employed against vehicles as part of Anti-Tank warfare. Dynamic electric armor applies principles of passive and active armor to create a technology that is hands-down superior to older technologies and is reflective of significant maturation and understanding of protective technologies.
Older protection designs often revolved upon a computer calculating the impact trajectory of a ballistic projectile and would deploy decoys or its' own projectiles in an attempt to destroy the warhead, while effective it created significant issue in regards to the impact it could have on friendly infantry when used in a vehicle application. This same problem does not appear in the dynamic electic armor technology due to the way it behaves and functions, kinetic threats are permitted to strike and detonate against the outer layer of conductive material and then pass through the layer beneath for the armor to function as intended the middle material of the armor "sandwich" must be highly elastic and non-conductive earthed material thus rubber makes for the most ideal candidate. The rubber bends under the intense force exerted by anti-tank weapons causing the armor on either side of it to bulge increasing the effective base thickness by approximately 300-500%.
Should a penetrator still punch through the armor and rubber and make contact with the second plate making up the armor technology, the penetrator creates a complete bridge between the inner and outer conductive metal or ceramic metal plates, the alternating power source then discharges its' current into the penetrator utterly annihilating it into a vaporized plasma gas the hole such a projectile creates should create a pressure vacuum in a standard atmosphere and the gas displaced up and out of the cavity harmlessly. This sets it apart from other active protection technologies which often fire their own projectiles and create hazardous shrapnel hazards for any nearby infantry soldiers, which is not the case with Dynamic Electric Armor Technology making it the superior system. However, the largest drawback of the technology is that it relies upon an active power-supply which if disrupted would seriously compromise the protective qualities of the system.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Essentially re-subbing a submission I've already made for a different faction with some slightly adjusted lore elements to be more appropriate.
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Dynamic armour (Wikipedia), Mark II dynamic electric armor (Original submission)
- Manufacturer: Unified Gwerin Ecumene
- Manufactured: 397,464 BBY-Current
- Designed: 397,470 BBY-397,464 BBY
- Designer: Unified Gwerin Ecumene
- Affiliation: CLOSED-MARKET (Controlled technology)
- Governments & Organisations:
- Individuals:
- Model: Dynamic Electric Armor
- Series:
- Arwel-Series Dynamic Electric Armor
- Modularity: Yes (Implementation, scale, etc.)
- Production: Mass-produced
- Material: Electrically conductive material (metal/ceramic metal etc.), rubber, electrically conductive material (metal/ceramic metal etc.)
- Alternating-current power supply
- Conductive material
- Insulative & expanding material
- Positive terminal
- Negative terminal
- Kinetic conqueror: When it comes to kinetic munitions such as shaped-charges, kinetic penetrators and tandem shaped charges the Mark II Dynamic Electric Armor overcomes, in the event such a projectile is fired at the armor technology, once it makes contact with the outer layer of armor the technology identifies the projectile as threat and discharges a massive current of electricity destroying the projectile into an impotent plasla. In the event the projectile is a tandem-warhead the second charge if it penetrates the outer plate must the move through the insulator material which is typically rubber and chosen due to its' elasticity, the rubber expands dramatically when subjected to the force associated with these weapons cause the armor plates it is sandwiched between to bulge increasing the base value for effective armor thickness by about 300-500% if a penetrator makes contact with the second armor plate a massive electrical current is discharged super-heating and harmlessly vaporizing the material into plasma, successfully defeating tandem warheads.
- Energy weapons: Due to the technology's function and the principles it operates beneath the Dynamic Electric Armor Technology confers no increased protection by virtue of its' design against energy weapons, or any positive impact it might have has been negligible under testing conditions.
- Sonic threats: Unfortunately because of the function of the dynamic armor and its' underlying principles it offers no specific active protection against sonic weaponry and as a result doesn't confer any additional effectiveness against threats of that nature.
- Power supply: Unlike more passive protection technologies the DEA requires an active current from an independent power supply to function if this supply were to be somehow disrupted the effectiveness of the technology would be dramatically reduced, although it is worth nothing the insulation rubber layer would still exhibit its' desirable warping properties a tandem charge as an example could still be a highly dangerous threat.
Dynamic Electric Armor Technology or "DEA" as it is more casually referred to is an active protection system technology developed by the ancient historic Unified Gwerin Ecumene in response to the widespread employment of tandem warhead charges in an attempt to defeat composite and reactive armor. The dynamic electric armor technology is typically applied widely to vehicle, starfighter and vehicle armor as a means of protecting against unguided and guided munitions particularly missiles or other projectiles that exploit the function of shaped-charge, kinetic-penetration or tandem-charge technology which is widely used as part of Anti-tank warfare. Throughout the history of armored vehicle protection various organisations, governments and businesses have attempted to solve for the myriad of kinetic threats that are employed against vehicles as part of Anti-Tank warfare. Dynamic electric armor applies principles of passive and active armor to create a technology that is hands-down superior to older technologies and is reflective of significant maturation and understanding of protective technologies.
Older protection designs often revolved upon a computer calculating the impact trajectory of a ballistic projectile and would deploy decoys or its' own projectiles in an attempt to destroy the warhead, while effective it created significant issue in regards to the impact it could have on friendly infantry when used in a vehicle application. This same problem does not appear in the dynamic electic armor technology due to the way it behaves and functions, kinetic threats are permitted to strike and detonate against the outer layer of conductive material and then pass through the layer beneath for the armor to function as intended the middle material of the armor "sandwich" must be highly elastic and non-conductive earthed material thus rubber makes for the most ideal candidate. The rubber bends under the intense force exerted by anti-tank weapons causing the armor on either side of it to bulge increasing the effective base thickness by approximately 300-500%.
Should a penetrator still punch through the armor and rubber and make contact with the second plate making up the armor technology, the penetrator creates a complete bridge between the inner and outer conductive metal or ceramic metal plates, the alternating power source then discharges its' current into the penetrator utterly annihilating it into a vaporized plasma gas the hole such a projectile creates should create a pressure vacuum in a standard atmosphere and the gas displaced up and out of the cavity harmlessly. This sets it apart from other active protection technologies which often fire their own projectiles and create hazardous shrapnel hazards for any nearby infantry soldiers, which is not the case with Dynamic Electric Armor Technology making it the superior system. However, the largest drawback of the technology is that it relies upon an active power-supply which if disrupted would seriously compromise the protective qualities of the system.
