>>64453650
Drones are too slow and have the wrong kind of FUZE, nobody is adding a bird cage to use it as slat armor in current year, it should be obvious. And the standoff is AGAINST THE BLAST EFFECT, penetration is a given, that's why the mesh is considerably further away from the vehicle.
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Slat armor:
• It works or not, there's no "partially worked" because the jet isn't degraded by standoff
• that means it has minimum standoff
• the projectile must have the correct strike velocity and fuze type.
• it's useless to hinder the aiming
Mesh armor (not all of them):
• it rarely avoids the detonation, there's no reliable way to disable the fuze of a drone and they're too slow to damage the liner during impact
• it have considerable standoff (but not always), that turns a vehicle into a mobile shed that will get stuck often
• it can't stop the jet, barely hinder the aiming
• at least it alleviates the problem of the blast and incendiary effect
• it doesn't need to be robust besides being sturdy enough to not be destroyed by an obstacle
Just because they aren't solid metal plates (lets ignore the rubber and improvised turttle crap) it doesn't means they are the same,
they diverged long ago.
The initial Visor was an attempt of slat/ERA roof against missiles.
>None of those matter against an armored vehicle.
They're literally sniping windows and hatches for a reason.
