being protected against sabot's seems to be little help at the moment. the challenger 2 that was hit by the roadside bomb* was protected by chobham 2 armour, a bit better then the generation used by the m1 but considerably more expensive.
the 'electric' charged armour being developed by the same folk who brought you chobham 1/2 is simply to stop shaped warheads slugs it wont help at all against such high energy kinetics of current road-side bombs.
incidently the place that makes/researches the stuff is all of 10 miles away from me at the moment.
*if you can call a artillery barrage gaffa-taped together a 'bomb'
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Were there monkeys? Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?
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