The United States gave Ukraine 31 M-1A1 Abrams tanks. They equip a single battalion in the Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade, which has been fighting a defensive campaign west of the ruins of ...

REACTIVE ARMOR: The fourth Stryker Brigade Combat Team (SBCT) will have reactive armor, Army officials say. "The slat armor was an interim solution. Reactive armor and an active protection system for ...

Weapons developments out of Ukraine come quick and often sudden. Case in point a Ukrainian Leopard 2 that has appeared in the field sporting an outer crust of ...

The boxy explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks around the sides of the hull, known as Bradley Reactive Armor Tiles (BRAT), are but one component of a fully equipped BUSK M2. The ERA, like its Russian ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed explosive reactive armor as a way of quickly adding protection to tanks and other heavier armored vehicles. ERA works by, well, exploding. When an incoming ...

General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products (GDATP), which has been equipping Army Bradley fighting vehicles with reactive armor since 1999, has opened a new facility in Mississippi to ...

Preparations are currently at the final stage for accepting the Arena-M reactive armor suite for service as part of T-72 tanks MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. The Arena-M reactive armor mounted on the T-72 ...