CDE enduring challenge:

protection

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Contents

• What is protection?

• Challenges for MOD

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Protection

• MOD has a requirement to protect ALL of its

equipment in ALL current operations at ALL times

• This is a logistical burden

• Protection systems need to be:

– smaller

– lighter

– lower consumption of power

– cheaper

– in general, they need to reduce the burden on MOD

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Protection

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Protection

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Tank Kinetic Energy

Tank Chemical Energy

Anti Tank Guided Missile

Smart Artillery

Unguided Artillery

Bomblets

Terminally Guided Sub Munition

Mines

Rocket Propelled Grenades

Guns

IEDs

Enduring challenges (1)

• Improvements in protection have long been linked to

improvements to protective materials

• This is important but there are several other areas to

consider

• New methods of protection

– defeat mechanisms?

– disrupter technology?

– overlooked areas of physics?

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Enduring challenges (2)

• Novel techniques or uses of modelling and simulation

– Can we predict performance of materials and systems more

efficiently or more accurately?

• Development of novel active systems

– Can we use protection methods that sense and ‘switch on’

when required?

– Can we detect effectiveness or vulnerability in our protection

systems?

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Enduring challenges (3)

• Cost of ownership (TLCM, DLODs)

– Can we consider the lifecycle of the armour system and

reduce the overall cost?

– Purchase price

– Maintenance

– Repair

– Packaging and transportation costs

– Storage

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Enduring challenges (4)

• Protection needs to be considered as a ‘system’ be

that a vehicle, a fleet, or a complete operation

• Generic Vehicle Architecture

– Increased flexibility and adaptability in the field

– Can we create protection systems that are interoperable fleet

wide?

– Can we share our protection systems with our allies?

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Enduring challenges (5)

• Disposal of systems

– How can we ensure information about protections systems is

not compromised if left on operations?

– Can we deny access to this information more easily or more

cleverly?

– Can we make disposal methods more effective and create

less of a burden?

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References:

Contact details:

E: cde@dstl.gov.uk or

aandpstcenquiries@dstl.gov.uk

W: www.science.mod.uk/enterprise or

www.dstl.gov.uk/armourandprotectioncentre

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