cargo. Armour may also be used in vehicles to protect from threats other than a deliberate attack. Some spacecraft are equipped with specialised armour to...
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Improvised vehicle armour is a form of vehicle armour consisting of protective materials added to a vehicle such as a car, truck, or tank in an irregular...
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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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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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Composite armour is a type of vehicle armour consisting of layers of different materials such as metals, plastics, ceramics or air. Most composite armours are...
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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, a British tank...
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Electric armour or electromagnetic armour is a type of reactive armour proposed for the protection of ships and armoured fighting vehicles from shaped...
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and other armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs), as well as naval vessels such as battleships and cruisers. Sloping an armour plate makes it more difficult...
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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...
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armoured fighting vehicle (British English) or armored fighting vehicle (American English) (AFV) is an armed combat vehicle protected by armour, generally combining...
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Rolled homogeneous armour (RHA) is a type of vehicle armour made of a single steel composition hot-rolled to improve its material characteristics, as opposed...
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which detonate before reaching the primary armour. Spaced armour is used on military vehicles such as tanks and combat bulldozers. In a less common application...
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penetrator ammunition used to attack modern vehicle armour. As an armament for main battle tanks, it succeeds Armour-Piercing Discarding Sabot (APDS) ammunition...
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Tank (redirect from Tank: Armoured Combat Vehicle)
fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield...
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Slat armor (redirect from Perforated armour)
Slat armor (or slat armour in British English), also known as bar armor, cage armor, and standoff armor, is a type of vehicle armor designed to protect...
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long-rod penetrator (LRP), is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like, high-sectional density projectile. Like a bullet...
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Pike nose (category Vehicle armour)
(from Russian: щучий нос) is a configuration of vehicle armour in which an armoured vehicle's frontal armour consists of three angular plates put together...
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military terminology, a soft-skinned vehicle, also known as a 'B' vehicle, is a vehicle that is not protected by vehicle armour. Lexicographer Eric Partridge...
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AMAP-ADS (category Vehicle armour)
light vehicles against large-calibre weapons, which light armour wouldn't stop. The ADS has a modular design that can be adapted to almost every vehicle; it...
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improvised armour plating and fixed crew-served weapons such as heavy machine guns or antiaircraft autocannons mounted onto the back of a utility vehicle or pickup...
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sufficient access to military armour, may convert civilian vehicles into fighting vehicles, adding improvised vehicle armour. Mexican drug cartels used armed...
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Nizh (Ukrainian: Ніж, lit. 'knife') is a brand of explosive reactive armour designed by the Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau and manufactured...
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Plastic armour (also known as plastic protection) was a type of vehicle armour originally developed for merchant ships by Edward Terrell of the British...
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Non-explosive reactive armor (redirect from Non-explosive reactive armour)
Non-explosive reactive armour (NxRA), also known as non-energetic reactive armor (NERA), is a type of vehicle armor used by modern main battle tanks and...
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Kontakt-5 (category Vehicle armour)
Turkmenistan T-90 Uganda T-90 Vietnam T-90 Syria T-90 and T-72B3 Vehicle armour Kontakt-1 "Kontakt-5 ERA". fofanov.armor.kiev.ua. Archived from the...
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Armour-piercing, capped, ballistic capped (APCBC) is a type of configuration for armour-piercing ammunition introduced in the 1930s to improve the armour-piercing...
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Glacis (redirect from Glacis armour)
the largest and most obvious target available to an enemy gunner. Sloped armour has two advantages: many projectiles will deflect rather than penetrate;...
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research into how to improve the effectiveness of the armour used in its armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs). With the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War in 1980...
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Spall (category Vehicle armour)
partial or complete disablement of a vehicle and/or its crew. Many AFVs are equipped with spall liners inside their armour for protection. A kinetic energy...
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ˈmaʁdɐ ˈaɪ̯ns]; "Schützen" carrying "Armour"-ed fighting vehicle "Marten 1") is a tracked German infantry fighting vehicle designed for use with the West German...
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