If you look at photographs of Soviet and Russian armored vehicles over the past 50 years, and then do the same with American and, more broadly, NATO equipment, you will notice one curious difference. On American and European tanks, you cannot see the well-known cubes with reactive armor against cumulative ammunition. Is NATO really not using this method of increasing the survivability of combat vehicles?
The statement that NATO does not use dynamic protection for armored vehicles is not true. This type of booking appeared in the Soviet Union in the 1960s thanks to the research of a team of engineers led by designer Bogdan Vyacheslavovich Voitsekhovsky. The new type of armor was quickly obtained for testing by American intelligence, but the US command to the new technology was reacted with a fair amount of skepticism, which could not be said about the US allies and members of NATO. For example, in the 1970s, Israel developed their own version of dynamic protection.
Until the late 1980s, the use of explosive cubes was virtually completely neglected in the United States. This situation finally changed for the Americans during the Gulf War in 1990-1991, when it finally became clear that armored vehicles needed to be equipped with additional active protection. At the same time, the TUSK - Tank Urban Survivability Kit appeared, which is essentially an American interpretation of the Soviet development of the 1960s.
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It is still used by TUSK in the United States, although combat vehicles are equipped with it mainly in those cases when they will have to fight in urban conditions. Meanwhile, progress does not stand still. And over the past decades, the Americans have been focusing on the active development of electronic reactive armor for their tanks, which is the next step in the evolution of protective equipment.
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