Titanium-A armor: Difference between revisions

'''Titanium-A armor''' is the most common form of battle plating used by the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] on its [[warship]]s. It is composed of high-grade [[Titanium]]-50<ref>'''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''', ''page 185''</ref> that is specially strengthened at the molecular level,<ref name="enc315">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 315''</ref> which implies alloying with other elements. It is usually greyish in color, and at least in the case of destroyers is embedded with thermal superconducting radiators which are probably needed to protect the ship from a plasma that does not have its own magnetic field or has too weak. <ref>'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 83''</ref> <ref name="superconducting radiators" group="note">The word "thermal" in the context probably mean the superconducting properties of carbon nanotubes that appear at temperatures (unlike most other materials whose superconductivity appears at temperatures close to absolute zero) from 3726 ° C. This means that due to their stability they can generate a powerful magnetic field. At the time of 2020, generators allow we to create a short-term magnetic field from 91.4 to 1200 Tesla (for comparison, the Earth's magnetic field: 0.5 · 10-4 Tesla), but can not hold it due to the lack of sufficiently strong materials.</ref> Following the [[Human-Covenant War]], some UNSC military vessels received [[energy shielding]] to allow the ships to absorb more damage.<ref>'''[[Spartan Ops]]''', ''[[Departure|S1E1 Departure]]''</ref> Like the [[Magnetic Accelerator Cannon]], Titanium-A armor plating saw advances and widespread use due to the [[Insurrection]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''', "[[The Impossible Life and the Possible Death of Preston J. Cole]]", ''page 457''</ref>