SERIES CODE:
BERT6112.AC.REQ.SK9
FILE:
Redesign of Armour Protection
PROJECT:
Knight Sabers
DESIGN:
Armour Plating, Outer Level
DESIGN INITIATOR:
Ichinohei Hitomi
PROJECT OVERVIEW:
SkyKnight is a highly specialized combat/aerial hardsuit with enhanced strength capabilities due to micro-polymer, monomer styled actuation systems. The original purpose of the armour is as a modular weapons base that can use a variety of offensive/defensive attachments to augment the onboard high-energy particle lasers. Initial design specifications indicate a neural chipped CPU based upon the DISC (Directed Instruction Set Code). Partial control of onboard systems would have to be based upon brain wave interpretations of general impulses towards weaponry/flight capabilities.
PROBLEM:
Ceramel Armour:
Ceramel is a tough, highly resilient, heat resistant material made of cubble ceramics combined with titanium-tungsten steel alloy. Theoretically, this structure can withstand impacts up to approximately .5 tonnes per square centimetre. Due to the ceramics however, this type of armour coating will degrade over time due to vibrational stress as did the tiles on the early space shuttles.
Theoretical Lifetime:
Mission descriptions would indicate a practical lifetime of five missions before having to be replaced unless struck with a high-density projectile that is able to concentrate the impact energy to a point of less that 9 centimetres square. Such a projectile will cause fracturing due to vibrational stress placed upon that area. The whole plate will become unstable and virtually useless with further fracturing occurring with a projectile of .303 or higher.
SOLUTION:
A composite sandwich material would be the best way to reduce the stresses that would be evident in this type of battle scenario. Being made of separate plates, the armour will be able to spread the stresses throughout the entire unit with less chance of fracturing. There are limits on how well this armour would operate in a real life environment due to manufacturing variations.
Layer One:
Consists of four separate levels of Fullerton Nano-molecular Tube Carbon Fibre cloth of approximately .1 millimetres thickness. This is kept in strips and kept together by a highly heat resistant polymer unguent. The layers are cross hatched then diagonaled for the best strength versus material used.
Layer Two:
Starlite
Layer Three:
3 mm layer of Fullerton Nano-molecular Tube Carbon Fibre Cloth.
Layer Four:
Ceramel Type Four in strips approximately 1 centimetre in width and cross hatched to provide stability. All strips have a small buffer material between them to reduce vibrational carryover and completed layers should be covered with either carbon fibre or preferably Fullerton Nano-Molecular Tube Carbon Fibre at .1 millimetres thickness.
Layer Five:
Ceramel Type Four octagons containing Fullerton Particle Room Temperature Superconductors. Optimal sizing for these superconductors would be .5 centimetres in diametre in an octagonal configuration at 3 millimetres thickness. All superconductors should have the same buffer material and coverings as those of Layer Four.
Layer Six:
Plasmel Five
Layer Seven:
Aluminum-Silver Alloy.
SIMULATION 277, 003 RESULTS:
Impact Force:
17.4 tonnes per square centimetre.
Laser Resistance:
74.2% reduction in impact energy.
Plasma Laser Resistance:
36.2% reduction in impact energy.
Particle Laser Resistance:
20.1% reduction in impact energy.
Phaser (Phased High-energy Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) Resistance:
3.1% reduction in impact energy.
Plasma Burst:
43.1% reduction in impact energy.
Particle Beam Resistance:
27.7% reduction in impact energy.
Electrical Impact:
99.6% reduction in impact energy.
High-Density Projectile:
87.2% reduction in impact energy.
Theoretical Lifetime:
57 missions.
WARNING:
theoretical data only.
WARNING:
Simulations conducted with assumption of optimal armour conditions.
WARNING:
Manufacturing must be entirely computer controlled.
RECOMENDATION:
Inner padding consisted of layers of Fullerton Nano-Molecular Tube Carbon Fibre Cloth.
RECOMENDATION:
Soft Suit undergarment consist of Fullerton Nano-Molecular Tube Carbon Fibre Circuitry Cloth.
RECOMENDATION:
Armour be modularly sequenced with an overplate coating.
RECOMENDATION:
Overload capacitors be installed in all areas of unit to prevent auto EMP and to collect electrical energy bursts to augment onboard power supplies and systems.
IMPROVED CAPABILITY:
Electromagnetic field can float armour approximately 5.3 Metres above the ground or 104.22 Metres above a metallic surface in a prone position.
END OF SIMULATION REPORT