On US fighter
aircraft of the third and fourth generations (1970-1980), transparent cockpit
armor is practically absent. In cases where transparent armor is installed, for
example, on the F-4E Phantom multipurpose fighter or the Tomcat F-14
carrier-based fighter, its thickness is minimal and is 32 mm, and the armor
itself is more of symbolic meaning. There is no transparent armor on the F /
A-18 carrier-based bomber fighter.
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| Helicopter Mi-24 |
The foregoing is
connected with a number of circumstances. Including, with a fundamental change
in the means of destruction of this class of aircraft, caused by the
replacement of small arms and fighter armament of fighters with guided-missile
weapons (with fragmentation-type warheads).
At the same
time, transparent armor is used to protect the crews of combat helicopters
operating in the reach zones of automatic infantry weapons. In 1971, the Mi-24
transport and combat helicopter was adopted in the USSR. The canopy of the
Mi-24 cockpits consists of curvature double side panels made of plexiglass and
flat frontal bulletproof glass blocks. The wide frontal armor blocks of both
tandem-mounted crew cockpits, together with steel armor of a 4–5 mm thick,
protect the front projection of the navigator-operator and helicopter pilot
from 7.62 mm infantry bullets.
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| Helicopter Ka-50 |
Transparent
armor is used to protect the cockpit of modern attack helicopters Mi-28 and
Ka-50, the front and side windows of which are made of armored glass blocks.
According to the developers, these vehicles are protected from armor-piercing
bullets of 12.7 mm caliber and 20 mm shells. The cockpit of the Su-25 armored
attack aircraft from the front of the attack is also protected by 65 mm thick
transparent bulletproof glass.
Margaret
Thursday, November 28, 2019
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