The fund also bought for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and continue to buy bulletproof helmets and portable radios, special materials for fortification, spaced armour for infantry fighting vehicles, armored cars, etc.
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In several months, some volunteer initiatives grew from groups in social networks into powerful crowdfunding projects which supplied the army with costly equipment like thermographic cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, spaced armour and so on.
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Many World War II German tanks had spaced armour in the form of armoured skirts, " "'Sch�rzen " "', to make their thinner side armour more effective against anti-tank rifle fire.
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The decision was made to allow the tank to increase its weight to the next classification, Military Loading Class 60 ( tonnes ), and a new design effort was started, with the spaced armour replaced with a much denser perforated armour assemblage.
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The new tank carried a three-man crew, with the driver in the turret, an automatic loader for the main gun, a autocannon as secondary armament, an active hydropneumatic suspension and spaced armour on the glacis plate and the front turret.
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Though it is often claimed to be otherwise, the original production model of the Leopard 2 did not use Chobham armour, but a combined spaced armour and perforated armour configuration, cheaper in terms of procurement, maintenance and replacement than a ceramic armour system.
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One important modification carried out as the result of operational experience in Afghanistan was the fitting of a second layer of stand-off armour, usually a high resistant ballistic rubber-like material, to act as spaced armour around the top of the hull sides and around the attack.
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The spaced armour is also designed to affect kinetic-energy penetrators by forcing them to change direction and eroding them in the process; it does not form a gunner's sight was moved to the turret roof as opposed to the cavity in the front armour in previous models.
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Having already designed a system that in their opinion offered satisfactory protection against shaped charges, consisting of multiple-laminate spaced armour with the spaces filled with ceramic polystyrene foam as fitted to the Leopard 1A3, they put a clear emphasis on improving KE-penetrator protection, reworking the system into a perforated metal module armour.
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However, this composite with a high metal content was primarily intended to increase the protection against KE-penetrators for a given armour weight; its performance against shaped charge attack was mediocre and would have to be improved by means of a laminate spaced armour effect, as researched by the Germans within the joint MBT-70 project.
