Polish Explosive reactive armor: ERAWA-1 and ERAWA-2
- The ERAWA armor is connected whit person of the Prof. Ph.D. D.Sc. Adam WISNIEWSKI from Military Institute of Armament Technology (WITU) in Poland . Name of this reactive armor is based on acronym: Explosive Reactive Armor Wisniewski Adam 1 and 2 layered.
The origins of the ERAWA are hidden in half of the 1980s when polish Military Institute of Armament Technology had started (in person Prof. Ph.D Wisniewski) development process about new armor for deep modernization of the T-72M1. In fact WITU work had started about whole family of the armor whit two „tank” part: ceramic CAWA armor for main tank armor and explosive ERAWA armor as external layer.
Rumors about eastern ( Soviet Union ) origins of the ERAWA are false. Polish Army during negotiation about future production in Poland T-72s tank (planned at half of the 1990s) rejected Kontakt-1 armor as solution whit many flaws and not good enough against suspected RPG's and ATGMS warhead in breakthrough of the 1980/1990.
New armor ERAWA-1 was available in 1993 whit first PT-91 prototype.
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