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Ultrax/CLARA Hybrid-Reactive Armor
(Verseidag Indutex / Dynamit Nobel)
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Ultrax based plates, capable of stopping multiple
hits of armor-piercing round up to 30mm. The specific weight of such
armor is 70km/m2. The company has collaborated with Dynamit-Nobel,
to develop a new reactive armor concept called CLARA, proposed as an
add-on armor for the German Marder AIFV. The lightweight metal-free
CLARA reactive armor module combines layers of sheet explosives and
composites which effectively engage the shaped charge plasma jet of
an incoming CE threat, but creates no fragments, as after the
explosion the composite material disintegrates into chaff. When
combined with the Ultrax base armor, the combined module provides
protection both against RPG/ATGW attacks as well as KE threats, at a
specific weight of approx. 270kg/m2.
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