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I also expect the purpose is to act as spaced armor. Though I don't know how much spaced armor helps against things like Javelin missiles, but anything to sligh

• RobertMiller 5y ago
  It's not really the same thing as spaced armor. The hope with statistical slat armor is that the tip of an RPG, where the detonator is, passes between the slats but the rest of the wider warhead behind that detonator is destroyed by the slats, which are too narrow for the warhead to thread through. The aim is to destroy the shaped charge warhead before the detonator has a chance to set it off; it only works some of the time, hence 'statistical'. It doesn't do much good against javelins, TOWs, improvised EFPs, etc. These sort of weapons aren't impact fused, the slat armor never has a chance to disable these warheads before they go off and the slats themselves won't do much to stop or deflect the penetrating jet created by the detonation of such warheads.