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 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. "Thermal" probably mean the superconducting properties of carbon nanotubes that appear at temperatures from 3726 ° C. This means that due to their stability they can generate a powerful magnetic field. At the time of 2020, generators allow you 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>'''[[Halo Mythos]]''', ''page 83''</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>