NATO targets
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NATO targets are a series of standard armoured targets defined by NATO designed to test the armour penetration of weapons. They are defined as:
| Target type | Angle of target |
First plate thickness |
First plate hardness |
First air gap | Second plate thickness |
Second plate hardness |
Second air gap |
Third plate thickness |
Third plate hardness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single medium | 60° | 130 mm | |||||||
| Single heavy | 60° | 160 mm | 260-300 kp/mm2 | ||||||
| Double medium | 60° | 40 mm | 150 mm | 90 mm | |||||
| Double heavy | 60° | 40 mm | 308-353 kp/mm2 | 150 mm | 110 mm | 260-300 kp/mm2 | |||
| Triple medium | 65° | 10 mm | 330 mm | 25 mm | 330 mm | 60 mm | |||
| Triple heavy | 65° | 10 mm | 412-438 kp/mm2 | 330 mm | 25 mm | 100-122 kp/mm2 | 330 mm | 80 mm | 308-353 kp/mm2 |