NATO targets are a series of standard armoured targets defined by NATO designed to test the armour penetration of weapons. The purpose of the triple heavy target is to represent the difficulty a projectile would face in penetrating the skirt, roadwheel, and hull of a Soviet tank.
They are defined as:
| Target type | Angle of target |
First plate thickness |
First plate hardness |
First air gap | Second plate thickness |
Second plate hardness |
Second air gap |
Third plate thickness |
Third plate hardness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single medium | 60° | 130 mm | |||||||
| Single heavy | 60° | 150 mm | 260-300 kp/mm | ||||||
| Double medium | 60° | 40 mm | 150 mm | 90 mm | |||||
| Double heavy | 60° | 40 mm | 308-353 kp/mm | 150 mm | 110 mm | 260-300 kp/mm | |||
| Triple medium | 65° | 10 mm | 330 mm | 25 mm | 330 mm | 60 mm | |||
| Triple heavy | 65° | 10 mm | 412-438 kp/mm | 330 mm | 25 mm | 100-122 kp/mm | 330 mm | 80 mm | 308-353 kp/mm |
References
- Kelley, Orr (1989). King of the Killing Zone. p. 176. ISBN 0-393-02648-5.
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