Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) High tech military armor that has a explosive layer that attempts to deflect incoming weapons by detonating. n. (context US English) High tech military armor that has a explosive layer that attempts to deflect incoming weapons by detonating.
Usage examples of "reactive armor".
The T-72, clad in reactive armor, was nearly invincible on the battlefield and moved through the terrain with impunity.
Holding his breath, he placed one of the Hummers in target acquisition, sighting on a small area in the rear not covered by the reactive armor plate.
Karl knows reactive armor, knows nothing he has will touch it, won't waste his time trying.
Their T-8o main battle tanks looked slightly toy-like with their reactive armor panels festooned on turret and hull, but they were also low-slung dangerous-looking vehicles whose enormously long 125mm guns left no doubt as to their identity and purpose.
Their T-80 main battle tanks looked slightly toy-like with their reactive armor panels festooned on turret and hull, but they were also low-slung dangerous-looking vehicles whose enormously long 125 mm guns left no doubt as to their identity and purpose.
At the top of the Bolo a light appeared as a circular hatch, protected by five hundred millimeters of reactive armor, opened up to the outside world.
Remembering the icy feeling in her guts as she'd walked out onstage wearing a bulletproof vest, knowing there was a reactive armor shield in front of her, and a crash cart with resuscitation and stabilization gear waiting behind the door, and an ambulance in back.
They had enough punch to deal with a lightly-armored GEV& assuming they got past the reactive armor's explosive strips first.
He was due to have a serious talk with General George Patton about the wonders of reactive armor and the need to make some drastic changes to the thirty-one-ton mobile crematorium known hereabouts as the Sherman tank.
The projectiles' velocity was high at short range (which was to say, at any range at which a hit could realistically be anticipated), as well, which imparted a tremendous kick when one hit the kinetic reactive armor of the chameleon suits.
Early models of this mark saw the last use of anti-kinetic reactive armor.
It'll punch through damn near anythingeven reactive armor, which you don't haveand once it penetrates.