Tekhnodinamika, a subsidiary of Russia's Rostec, will start mass production of new ceramic composite armor. The armor can effectively protect personnel, land, sea and air platforms, greatly reducing the damage caused by armor-piercing projectiles and artillery shells.
The new ceramic armor is made of corundum ceramic (a kind of alumina superhard material), which has the advantages of light weight, small size, compact structure and so on. After multiple stages of testing, it has been proved that the new type of armor is better than steel armor.
In the actual test, the testers used corundum ceramic, steel or polymer to make composite armor, and used a 7.62mm Dragunov sniper rifle to shoot at the armor at a rate of 805 to 832 meters per second. Tested by the protective armor developer JSC, the penetration delay time coefficient is 21.6, and the quality of the composite armor has been fully verified. Because the strength of corundum ceramic is higher than that of steel, when a bullet hits the ceramic armor, the projectile body deforms and is easily affected by the second protective layer (steel or polymer) and slows down. Therefore, armor made of new materials has better protection performance.