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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Mark II Dynamic Electric Armor Technology or "DEAT" as it is more casually referred to is an active protection system technology developed by the League of Sanctified Steel between the years of 742-750 ABY and 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. Mk II DEAT applies principles of passive and active armor to create a technology that is arguably superior to older technologies and resembles significant maturation and understanding.
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 Mark II DEAT 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 "sandwhich" 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 away 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 sharpnel hazards for any nearby infantry soldiers, which is not the case with Mark II 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: Introduce a type of protective technology developed and manufactured by the League of Sanctified Steel with its' principles used in a variety of applications but most commonly in vehicle and star-ship armor
- Image Source: N/A
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: None
- Primary Source: Dynamic armour (Wikipedia)
- Manufacturer: League of Sanctified Steel
- Manufactured: 750 ABY-Current
- Designed: 742-750 ABY
- Designer: League of Sanctified Steel
- Affiliation: Closed-market (Controlled technology)
- Model: Mark II dynamic electric armor
- Modularity: Yes (Implementation, scale, etc.)
- Production: Mass-produced
- Material: Conductive metal/ceramic metal, rubber, conductive metal/ceramic metal.
- 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 and passes through the outer layer of armor it must then penetrate 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 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 and this is true even for tandem charges.
- Energy weapons: Due to the technology's function and the principles it operates beneath the Mark II 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 DEAT requires an active current from an indendent 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 insulative rubber layer would still exhibit its' desirable warping properties a tandem charge as an example would still be a highly dangerous threat.
Mark II Dynamic Electric Armor Technology or "DEAT" as it is more casually referred to is an active protection system technology developed by the League of Sanctified Steel between the years of 742-750 ABY and 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. Mk II DEAT applies principles of passive and active armor to create a technology that is arguably superior to older technologies and resembles significant maturation and understanding.
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 Mark II DEAT 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 "sandwhich" 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 away 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 sharpnel hazards for any nearby infantry soldiers, which is not the case with Mark II 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.
