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Advanced Modular Armor Protection (AMAP) is modular composite armour concept, developed by the German company IBD Deisenroth Engineering. According to IBD AMAP is a 4th generation composite armour, making use of nano-ceramics and modern steel alloy technologies. AMAP is the successor of MEXAS.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=AMAP Protection System IBD )〕 Some modules of the AMAP family can be combined to create an all-around protection. ==Structure== AMAP is making use of new advanced steel alloys, Aluminium-Titanium alloys, nanometric steels, ceramics and nano-ceramics. The new high-hardened steel needs 30% less thickness to offer the same protection level as ARMOX500Z High Hard Armour steel.〔 While Titanium requires only 58% as much weight as rolled homogeneous armour (RHA) for reaching the same level of protection, ''Mat 7720 new'', a newly developed Aluminium-Titanium alloy, needs only 38% of the weight.〔 That means that this alloy is more than twice as protective as RHA of the same weight. AMAP is also making use of new nano-ceramics, which are harder and lighter than current ceramics, while having multi-hit capability. Normal ceramic tiles and a liner backing have a mass-efficiency (EM) value of 3 compared to normal steel armour, while it fulfills STANAG 4569. The new nano-crystalline ceramic materials should increase the hardness compared to current ceramics by 70% and the weight reduction is 30%, therefore the EM value is larger than 4.〔 Furthermore, the higher fracture toughness increases the general multi-hit capability. Some AMAP-modules might consist of this new ceramic tiles glued on a backing liner and overlaid by a cover, a concept which is also used by MEXAS.〔A graphical rendering from IBD-Deisenroth-Engineering.de called (stream_sandwich.wmv )〕 Lightweight SLAT armour is also part of the AMAP family. In excess new nano-ceramic armour overlaying a vehicle's base armour, which is backed up by a spall-liner, can achieve a weight reduction of more than 40% to meet the Level 3 of STANAG 4569.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=IBD Live February 2011 )〕 Furthermore, AMAP's glue and lining components are working efficiently even at high temperatures (like ).〔 AMAP is a modular protection concept, therefore several modules, some of them in different variants according to the required protection level, are formed. The efficiency may be increased if more types of AMAP-modules are used. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Advanced Modular Armor Protection」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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