Furthermore, the vehicles were fitted with additional passive armour and an air conditioning unit.

It also has an ammunition crate fitted to the glacis plate which serves as additional passive armour.

Additional armour protection can be installed with an add-on layer of spaced passive armour.

Passive Armour 2.

Additional passive armour protection is effective against 12.7 mm armour-piercing rounds from a range of 50 m. Explosive reactive armour is available as an option.

In order to reach different types of desired armour protection MEXAS is either passive armour or non-explosive reactive armour.

The Leopard 2A7 features the latest generation of passive armour and belly armour providing protection against mines and IEDs.

Protection The hull and turret are of all-welded-steel construction with modular MEXAS passive armour protection.

The glacis plate and nose of the hull have been upgraded with the addition of passive armour and the turret has been fitted with stand-off armour.

Since AMAP-SC is passive armour, in contrast to ERA, no explosives are used, so collateral damage is reduced to a minimum.

Protection The protection system includes multilayer passive armour, Nozh-2 explosive reactive armour, Zaslon active protection system, Varta optronic countermeasures system and other tank protection means.

To help prevent incidents of this nature happening again, Challenger 2s have been upgraded with a new passive armour package, including the use of add-on armour manufactured by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems of Israel.

Plasan's unique products are at the heart of proven passive armour protection systems which are operationally proven and used by defence, law enforcement and security personnel in Europe, the U.S., Asia and the Middle East.

The upgraded T-54 is equipped with additional passive armour, a new transmission LSG 3000, an improved cooling system, a new all-electric gun control system, under-armour fuel tanks "Superflexit" on either side of the hull and 76mm smoke grenade discharges.