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  Ablative armor - Memory Alpha - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ablative armor is a type of protective hull plating developed by Starfleet sometime on or before 2371.
Though unclear, this armor is likely related to the ablative hull armor technology, brought back from 26 years in Voyager's future and used by the USS Voyager.
As there has never been an explicit differentiation between the two technologies, it could be speculated that the future armor technology from the 25th century is an outgrowth of the ablative armor seen in the 2370’s.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Ablative_armor   (423 words)

  
 Ablative armor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In contemporary spacecraft, ablative plating is most frequently seen as heat shielding for a vehicle that must enter atmosphere from orbit, such as on the Mars Pathfinder probe.
In a hypothetical military application, ablative armor would undergo a state change on weapon impact, perhaps vaporising, or disintegrating to a fine powder.
Ablative armor is distinct from the concept of reactive armor, which uses a sandwich layer of explosives to disrupt the thrust of armor piercing ammunition, and is actually in common use in modern armored vehicles.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablative_armor   (203 words)

  
 Ablative Armor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ablative armor is an additional reactive plating imposing a counterforce to incoming weapon fire.
The armor evaporates when hit with an energy weapon like a Phaser, taking some of the energy from the weapon with it in space as it evaporates.
Ablative armor has been installed into most of the newer classes of starships.
www.bravofleet.com /bravofleet/darmor-ablative.htm   (123 words)

  
 Ablative Armor
A new spin on heavy-duty invincibility, it's ablative, meaning that it's meant to be degraded as it's struck.
Not only was the armor self-repairing, it received its strength from the fact that it falls apart on contact, the force from any blow was radiated off the armor as small tiles--made of a special high-impact polymer--chipped off.
The Ablative Armor utilized current generation inner/outer atmospheric boot jets for flight on Earth or in outer space.
www.ironmanarmory.com /ablativearmor.html   (571 words)

  
 Ablative case - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Generalizing their function, however, ablatives modify or limit verbs by ideas of where (place), when (time), how (manner), etc. Hence, the case is sometimes also called the adverbial case; this can be quite literal, as phrases in ablative can be translated as adverbs.
In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning "from off of", e.g.
It is an outer locative case, used just as the adessive and allative cases to denote both being on top of something and "being around the place" (as opposed to the inner locative case, the elative, which means "from out of" or "from the inside of").
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ablative_case   (829 words)

  
 Upgraded Ablative Armor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This system is an improvement to the Ablative Armor system first designed for the Defiant Class starship 10 years ago, 2367.
When the generator is engaged, armor is 'replicated' and 'transported' over the hull.
Shields don't work while armor is engaged, and vice versa because of power needed and shield emitters are covered by armor when it's engaged
www.bravofleet.com /bravofleet/darmor-ablative2.htm   (193 words)

  
 TrekWars - The Furry Conflict: Ablative Armor
Type of advanced armor that protects starship internal systems from damage.
Ablative armor vaporizes when struck by fire, absorbing the energy of the weapon and preventing damage to the main hull.
For additional discussion of the topic of ablative armor, please refer to the
www.furryconflict.com /tech/technopedia/armor/ablative_armor.html   (66 words)

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