Mysterious titanium plate

[shinyedges]

I work for a DoD contractor and we machine armor for tanks and strykers amongst other things. Let me do some digging.

 

[WadeWilson]

There are no knives in this thread...

HOWEVER

I am intrigued

 

[mete]

Some years back I talked to my brother to explain the wonder of Ti. Next time I saw him he gave me a small chunk of Ti. No info with it I tried first the hacksaw test .The blade just skidded off . Most likely Navy stuff .I might still have that piece .Want to check it out Mecha ? I still have great difficulty in convincing people that during the Cold War we bought sponge Ti which we processed into Ti for missles and aircraft !!

 

[gzb]

Next time I saw him he gave me a small chunk of Ti. No info with it I tried first the hacksaw test .The blade just skidded off

Really?
Titanium is tough, but it's not very hard.

 

[19-3ben]

If he has to wrap it around to form an axe head, it could be called "the bender"...

 

[lieferung]

Naginata... That's what some Predator use.

I would love to see a CM take on a Naginata... Is Forged in Fire coming back for another season?

 

[katanas]

Wade, there ARE knives in this thread just as there was "David" in that big hunk of marble.

 

[evltcat]

+2 on the pole arm head Mecha!!!
And save a small piece for a war hammer, that would rock!

 

[A.L.]

You should make one big honking fidget spinner out of that

Just kidding

 

[jbmonkey]

shoot some rounds at it. if survives, use it as redneck body armor plate. thats what we'd do down here with it.

 

[WadeWilson]

Wade, there ARE knives in this thread just as there was "David" in that big hunk of marble.

You... I like you.

 

[Lapedog]

I was on a tank crew for 8 years. I can't think of any place that piece would have been. Unless there were some major changes since I was in. Most of the tank armor is DU plates.

The Abrams and other westerb MBTs use Chobram armour I thought. Which has a bunch of ceramic built into it as well as other composite materials. I always thought only those two squares at the front of the turret were the DU plates.

I believe that while MBTs likely wouldn't use Ti for armour lighter AFVs might. For example the M2 Bradley.

 

[LadyEarth]

Seems like people are forgetting that the military tends to do a lot of testing with prototypes and all that before making an actual production model going forward. This could be from one such testing.

 

[Valyrian steel]

Tomahawks. Make tomahawks, then let me know how much.

 

[Monofletch]

The M2 Bradley is aluminum. The front two turret plates and the front slope of the hull is DU on an Abrams. In the Gulf war they put extra DU plates on our tanks before we left the port.

 

[mete]

Lady Earth, Back in VN days it often was , make show with videos , wine and dine Brass and Politicians , maybe a prototype , then into FULL PRODUCTION !
Wait , the development work ?? What do you mean " what's that " ??

 

[Cereal_killer]

Everyone in this thread just made another list.

 

[WValtakis]

Meh...I was probably already on it at this point

~Chip

 

[Mecha]

I was on a tank crew for 8 years. I can't think of any place that piece would have been. Unless there were some major changes since I was in. Most of the tank armor is DU plates.

We got ourselves a Tanker here, says it ain't from a tank!

I believe you, Monofletch. All of my previous research indicates that titanium alloy armor has been TESTED since the '70s. It always does great, but simply ends up costing too much money to go mainstream. The "low cost" titanium armor mentioned in research is just 6al4v, which is cheaper than a purpose-formulated armor alloy, but still ends up costing too much by the time it's all over with.

 

[Mecha]

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ATI mil-425 is Grade 38. So far I think there's a good chance that's what this plate is (it certainly feels and seems similar to it), and whoever etched it was confused.

Keep in mind that Allegheny Technologies' "wish list" of "designed for" applications doesn't mean the alloy is used commonly for those purposes! lol