The British Official Armour Specification is a set of standards for armour construction for armoured fighting vehicles, including tanks, during the late...

Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was a British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour, large longitudinal chassis with...

chief diplomatic advisor, and A25 from its General staff specification number, was a British light tank produced by Vickers-Armstrong during the Second...

British Armour in the Second World War - Part 2. HMSO. ISBN 0-11-290534-X. Fletcher, David (1983). Cromwell Tank: Vehicle History and Specifications....

a British infantry tank of the Second World War. The design began as the A12 specification in 1936, as a gun-armed counterpart to the first British infantry...

by its General Staff specification number A13 Mark I, was a British cruiser tank of the Second World War. It was the first British cruiser tank to use...

News. Archived from the original on 5 November 2009. British Next Generation Armour, Tankograd British Special no. 9009, Dan Hay Brooke-Holland, Louisa (21...

in the quality of the armour. The first loss to an Allied gun was on 20 January 1943 near Robaa, when a battery of the British 72nd Anti-Tank Regiment...

Challenger 3 (CR3) is a British fourth-generation main battle tank in development for the British Army. It will be produced by the conversion of existing...

preferred action for British tankers. Moreover, the armour package had been designed to defeat either the 115 mm firing armour-piercing fin-stabilized...

for Next-generation Light Anti-tank Weapon or Next-Generation Light Anti-armour Weapon. The N is short for "Next generation" or "Next-generation", while...

was the successor to the Tiger I, combining the latter's thick armour with the armour sloping used on the Panther medium tank. It was the costliest German...

Explosive Incendiary (HEI) High Explosive (HE) Armour Piercing (AP) APSE (Armour Piercing Secondary Effects) Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot-Tracer (APDS-T)...

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...

Spitfire. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 978-08536-8-464-0. Buttler, Tony (2004). Fighters & Bombers, 1935–1950. British Secret Projects. Vol. III...

of thermal imagers, digital fire-control systems and special (composite) armour (Soviet doctrine, however, de-emphasizes thermal vision and electronic fire...

The .303 British (designated as the 303 British by the C.I.P. and SAAMI) or 7.7×56mmR, is a .303-inch (7.7 mm) calibre rimmed tapered rifle cartridge....

missile but it was not possible to design an air portable vehicle to the specification. The limits on both size and weight led to the use of aluminium alloy...

designs increased rapidly in size and made use of improvements in armament, armour, and propulsion throughout the dreadnought era. Within five years, new battleships...

ministers, on the basis that no UK manufacturer could meet revised security specifications. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was first seen to use an Audi A8 model in...

III with respect to armour penetration. Both the Panzer III and IV had difficulty in penetrating the British Matilda II's thick armour, while the Matilda's...

also known as a ballistic vest or bullet-resistant vest, is a type of body armour designed to absorb impact and prevent the penetration of firearm projectiles...

vehicles, requiring the tank to fire armour piercing (AP) shells. On January 11, 1934, following specifications laid down by Heinz Guderian, the Army...

vertically faced turret armour. The second tranche, from Leopard 2A5 onwards, has an angled, arrow-shaped, turret appliqué armour, together with other improvements...

that a specification for such a fighter was likely to be presented soon. Hawker started on the Vulture engined design in October. The specification was released...

unreliable and its 30 mm maximum riveted steel armour, designed to withstand 20 mm fire, was vulnerable to British 2-pounder guns at any range at which the...

Although vehicles that incorporated the basic principles of the tank (armour, firepower, and all-terrain mobility) had been projected in the decade or...

forces in North Africa having pushed the British back to the Egyptian border and the remaining British armour being a mixed force of older tanks with a...

was disappointing for a vehicle of its technical specifications, given the Panther's superior armour and armament to the Sherman. Zaloga argues that this...

Propellant White BT, British Tanks 1915-1945 Ian Allan Publishing, London Fletcher, David (1989). The Great Tank Scandal: British Armour in the Second World...