Really von Poop? I did't know there were such treasures so close from my home. I must go to Jersey now. The trouble is that I have to find an excuse to drag my wife there, not the sun I'm afraid...

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What is this? I've never heard of "rubber" being used as armor. Please elaborate more.

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Nice picture Von Poop. It looks like this tank was made out of cardboard, it almost remembers me of the early Weimar republic tanks when they germans used "toys" to start training.

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It seems to be mining conveyor belt rubber, very tough & steel reinforced.
I think the hope is to increase deflections/premature detonation of rocket weapons, RPG etc. The skirts have some give and would be adequate to set off the famously sensitive RPG warhead at a far enough distance from the running gear.
The Soviets had a few rubber-armoured experiments, though none of them seem to have gone 'mass-market'.
I suspect the Bosnian ones are more to do with that psychological perception of increased protection so important to vehicle crews, particularly perhaps while operating ww2 vehicles against modern weapons.

Cheers,
Adam.

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"Wars cannot be fought with dream stuff" - Sir Percy Hobart.

Certainly chain-link fencing and/or light metal strips like the ones used on vehicles in Iraq would offer the same? protection while at a much lesser weight???

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