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  • Thumbnail for Reactive armour
    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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    including naval armour, body armour, and vehicle armour. The first, major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armour carried on...
    41 KB (5,313 words) - 21:20, 28 October 2024
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    hundreds of millimetres of the most resistant steel armours. The capability of most materials for defeating HEAT follows the "density law", which states that...
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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...
    31 KB (3,802 words) - 00:04, 19 November 2024
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    fragments of space debris. Modern aircraft powered by jet engines usually have them fitted with a sort of armour in the form of an aramid composite kevlar...
    32 KB (3,775 words) - 15:43, 27 September 2024
  • The Armour of Light is a historical fiction novel by Welsh author Ken Follett. It is the fifth book in the Kingsbridge Series, and is the sequel to A Column...
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    Tiger I (section Armour)
    30-tonne class vehicle with thicker armour, the Durchbruchwagen II, which would have had 50 mm (2.0 in) of frontal armour and mounted a Panzer IV turret with...
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    Body armor (redirect from Body armour)
    Body armor, personal armor (also spelled armour), armored suit (armoured) or coat of armor, among others, is armor for a person's body: protective clothing...
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    K21 (section Armour)
    the round penetrates armour. The K236 MMFA (Multi-mode Fused Ammunition) has several modes including proximity, air burst, armour-piercing and fragmentation...
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    vertically faced turret armour. The second tranche, from Leopard 2A5 onwards, has an angled, arrow-shaped, turret appliqué armour, together with other improvements...
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  • warrior-monks who fight for the Imperium of Man. They wear mechanised suits of armour and have modified genomes that grant them superhuman strength and endurance...
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    Panther tank (section Armour)
    plate (the main front hull armour piece), but as armour-piercing capped rounds became the standard in all armies (thus defeating the benefits of face-hardening...
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    T-80 (section Armour)
    that found that the Israeli 105mm M111 APFSDS ammunition could defeat the glacis armour of the latest models of the T-72 and T-80. The Kontakt-5 is integrated...
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    the increasing power of armour-piercing shells made armouring the sides of a warship more and more difficult, as very thick, heavy armour plates were required...
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    Tank (section Armour)
    front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; their...
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    armour at Nomonhan. During the three-month-long war, Japanese armour had shown their weakness against Soviet tanks; and the resulting Japanese defeat...
    69 KB (9,268 words) - 20:00, 12 October 2024
  • and mail armour, and shoot with bows. Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film The Lord of the Rings begins with the forging of the Rings of Power and the events...
    52 KB (6,235 words) - 23:42, 17 November 2024
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    T-72 (section Armour)
    specifications for its armour have changed considerably. Original T-72 tanks had homogeneous cast steel armour incorporating spaced armour technology and were...
    109 KB (11,980 words) - 18:16, 24 November 2024
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    Panzer III (section Armour)
    heavy tanks and T-34 medium tanks it proved to be inferior in both armour and gun power. To meet the growing need to counter these tanks, the Panzer III...
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    manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics (formerly: FFV Ordance, later, Bofors Anti-Armour Systems).[unreliable source?] The AT4 is not a rocket launcher strictly...
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