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/arial 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 plasma lasers.  Initial design specifications 
indicate a nural chiped cpu based upon the directed instruction code 
set.  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 tunstung 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 than 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 occuring 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 seperate 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 seperate levels of carbon flexfibre strips kept together 
by a highly heat resistant polymer unguent.  The layers would have to be 
cross hatched then diagonaled for the best strength index.

Layer Two:

Starlite.

Layer Three:

Ceramel Type Four.

Layer Four:

Ceramel Type Four octogons and having embedded superconductors withing.  
Optimal sizing for this is a one centimetre diametre.

Layer Five:

Plasmel Five

Layer Six:

Allunimum-Silver Alloy

Changes to intial design due to previous combat simulations:

Layer Three:

Ceramel should be in strips of approximately 1 centermetre width and 
cross hatched to provide stability.  All strips should have a small 
buffer material to reduce vibrational carryover and completed layers 
should be covered with carbon fibre.

Layer Four:

All superconductors should have buffer materials between them and be 
covered in carbon fibre.

SIMULATION 472 RESULTS:

Impact Force:

2.1 tonnes per square centimetre.

Laser Resistance:
37.0% reduction in impact energy.

Plasma Laser Resistance:

18.0% reduction in impact energy.

Plasma Burst:

23.0% reduction in impact energy.

Electrical Impact:

95.0% reduction in impact energy.

High-Density Projectile:

27.2% reduction in impact energy

Theoretical Lifetime:

35 missions

WARNING:

Theoretical data only

WARNING:

Simulations conducted with assumption of optimal armour conditions.

WARNING:

Electrical feedback may cause small EMP field.

WARNING:

Manufacturing must be computer controled.

RECOMENDATION:

Inner passing consists of layers of Plasmel Seven and Kevlar.

RECOMENDATION:

Soft suit be made of Plamel Seven and Kevlar.

RECOMENDATION:

Armour plating be redesigned upon a modular sequencing with overplate 
coating.

RECOMENDATION:

Overload capacitors be installed in unit to capture electrical energy bursts.

IMPROVED CAPABILITY:

Electromagnetic field can float armour approximately 37 centimetres above 
the ground in a prone position.

IMPROVED CAPABILITY:

Electromagnetic field can deflect some electrical energy.

IMPROVED CAPABILITY:

Superconductor layer can absorb some electrical energy.

END OF SIMULATION REPORT

Ichinohei Hitomi
Hitomi@escape.ca