TunshelArmour™ - Tungsten Coated Armour & Tungsten Coated Shells

Deployment of the radioactively poisonous artillery shells or whole depleted uranium or plutonium volume shells in warfare is indefensible and abhorrent. Tunshel is the sober answer to that ethical deficiency.

Armoured Personnel Carrier, TunshelArmour Cladding

Armour outer plating would be served well by tungsten coated steel with Nular paneling and an final, inner plate layer of conventional steel, sink bolted together. An exoframe of tungsten coated steel covers the seams of the outer plating and adds structural support.

The plates should be held together by greased sink bolts made of a harder carbide metal than the plating. The grease must not be solvent to the nylon. The thick, hard sink bolts will allow the plates to slide over them, on impact. That delivers restorative compression of the armour cladding. The armoured vehicle or armoured structure would be covered in tessellated armour cladding.

That configuration allows for kinetic displacement when the platform is struck - dispersing the energy, kinetically in all directions and as de-formation in the Nular. The platform will have restorative reflexive armour plating, akin to the back plating of a crocodilian. The swift and sure, lateral, force displacement of high calibre rounds and light artillery contact is more ideal for the APCs than the heavier and less meachnically engineered tank, TunshelArmour Cladding.

Without the forwar-to-lateral force displacement, the APC would absorb full, forward facing force of artillary. The APC would likely be toppled over by heavy artillary shells, rather than mechanically distributing the forward force into the surrounding materials. The framework surrounding each pressure zone will have to be made of robust steel, to contain the lateral force, with some flexing.

Tank, TunshelArmour Cladding

Tanks would be similarly cladded to the Armoured Personnel Carriers (APC). The principle difference is that tank armour would be devoid of the sink bolts and react to cladding strike similarly to that of the structure of the APCs without mechanical plate oscillation over sink bolts. The mechanics would operate on pure de-formation or flexor force response of the outer-most and inner-most cladding with a middle layer of aluminium, crumple zone mass, in place of the nylon.

The outer and inner layers should be conventially, mid-hardness steel. In advanced application an extra outer coating of iron would slow down striking metal contact. The cladding would be divided into contiguously arrayed, rectangular pads of the description above.

Tank, TunshelArmour is well suited to protection of submarines from munitions attack.

Tunshel™

There is a fortunate alternative to that status quo. Conventional steel shells, coated in tungsten hide, will perform better than both - mechanically and economically.

Tunshel is a methodology for shells and armour. Where tungsten was described, any metal or hardened substance such as Carbide, can substitute the tungsten. The inner material can be any weight bearing, or alternatively structural bracing material. (See Carbide™ - Hardened Alloys and Semiconductors.)

© Xerqon Pty Ltd 2026