Mete...Armour plate?

george tichbourne

george tichbourne

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Mete or anyone else who can help please.

I am looking at a job involving making a knife out of armour plate, specifically a Russian APC. Does this type of material normally contain enough carbon to harden properly?

George
 
Boker has Damascus pieces made from a German Leopard tank (barrel I think). You'd would more than like have to forge weld with higher carbon steels but I'm sure Robert or Kevin can answer more fully.
 
It's not off of something we shot up over in the Sandbox is it? If it was shot with DU rounds there are some heavy metal poisoning issues. You probably know this but I can't help myself.
 
A buddy of mine got some armor plate for a target....he said the steel was T520. about 1/2" thick...we sent everyhing down range at this thing but a .50
Not even a dent! Not sure if this helps ya...but it's cool anyway!:D
Mace
 
Steel targets for shooting are usually made of abrasion resistant steels such as AR450 and AR500 [the numbers are Brinell hardness].These are quench and tempered [HRc about 50 ]. www.chapelsteel.com gives some of the MIL spec numbers for further info about their armour steels. I never was involved in making these steels but was at one time involved in the other end -the Rockeye bomblet which [shaped charge] put a 1/4" hole through 12" of steel !! That turned out to be the ideal anti-armour weapon for Desert Storm.
 
I think plate is still used, but lots of advances made last 30 yrs or so with layers - steel / ceramics / composites. Gotta like reactive armor - it explodes when hit. Now a knife incorporating that would explode onto the scene! ;)

Found this on russian plate armor - it gives carbon percentages from .24% - .47% and HB hardness (last table).

http://www.niistali.ru/science/br_stali_en.htm
 
Broos said:
Gotta like reactive armor - it explodes when hit. Now a knife incorporating that would explode onto the scene! ;)
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