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Armour (Commonwealth English) or
armor (American English; see
spelling differences) is a
covering used to
protect an object, individual, or
vehicle from...
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Under Armour, Inc. is an
American sportswear company that
manufactures footwear and
apparel headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland,
United States. Under...
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Scholars agree that ****anese
armour first appeared in the 4th century, with the
discovery of the cuir**** and
basic helmets in graves.
During the Heian...
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Reactive armour is a type of
vehicle armour used in
protecting vehicles,
especially modern tanks,
against shaped charges and
hardened kinetic energy penetrators...
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Chobham armour is the
informal name of a
composite armour developed in the 1960s at the
Military Vehicles and
Engineering Establishment,
British tank...
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Plate armour is a
historical type of
personal body
armour made from bronze, iron, or
steel plates,
culminating in the
iconic suit of
armour entirely encasing...
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including naval armour, body
armour,
vehicle armour. The
first major application of
armour-piercing
projectiles was to
defeat the
thick armour carried on many...
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Lamellar armour is a type of body
armour, made from
small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron or steel,
leather (rawhide), bone, or bronze...
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Lamellar armour was
supplemented by
scale armour since the
Warring States period or earlier.
Partial plate armour was po****r from the Eastern...
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Faulds are
pieces of
plate armour worn
below a
breastplate to
protect the
waist and hips,
which began to
appear in
Western Europe from
about 1370. They...