It’s clear some Russian troops don’t know how their armor works. Photos that recently circulated online depict Russian Gaz-66 trucks wearing blocks of explosive reactive armor. The armor won ...

In the 1970s, the Soviet Union developed explosive reactive armor as a way of quickly adding protection to tanks and other heavier armored vehicles. ERA works by, well, exploding. When an incoming ...

The U.S. Army wants to protect its Bradley fighting vehicles -- by strapping dozens of Israeli explosives to their skins. The idea behind "reactive armor" is to blow up a roadside bomb or rocket ...

There's a very similar problem with tanks, and one solution was the explosive reactive armor developed in the 1960's. This is composed of a series of tiles which can be retrofitted to existing ...

In the 1950s the USSR began to develop the first systems of reactive tank armor. These took the form of block-like containers holding an explosive charge and metal plates that ejected towards the ...

“The explosive reactive armor we have chosen provides protection against a variety of opposing anti-food-delivery arms including RPG-7s, ISILs, various ATMs and college idiots who think it’s funny to ...

Russian troops are struggling to properly fit their tanks with Explosive Reactive Armor (ERA), adding to "heavy attrition" in combat, according to Britain's Ministry of Defense.