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 explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The T-90’s most useful feature has actually proven to be its superior optics and fire control computer compared to earlier Russian tanks. “T-90s performed well when ...

Recently we have been getting a lot of information regarding the armor of the Russian T-14 Armata tank, and it might not be as good as people originally thought it was. We got several images of ...

Russian troops are struggling to properly fit their tanks with Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA), adding to "heavy attrition" in combat, according to Britain's Ministry of Defense. Russia has become ...

Of course a small number of T-90s was not going to have a great impact on a sprawling civil war that had been raging for years. However, Janovský still see lessons to be drawn from the situation. “The ...