Naval armor refers to the various protections schemes employed by warships. The first ironclad warship was created in 1859, and the pace of armour advancement...
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Krupp armour was a type of steel naval armour used in the construction of capital ships starting shortly before the end of the nineteenth century. It...
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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...
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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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Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour (born 1973) is a former United States Marine Corps officer who was the first African-American female naval aviator in the Marine...
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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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as naval vessels such as battleships and cruisers. Sloping an armour plate makes it more difficult to penetrate by anti-tank weapons, such as armour-piercing...
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the armour-piercing capabilities of both naval and anti-tank guns. The configuration consists of an armour-piercing shell fitted with a stubby armour-piercing...
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continual need for reliable protection with the increasing size in naval ordnance. Compound armour was a non-alloyed attempt to combine the benefits of two different...
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Shell (projectile) (redirect from Armour piercing capped)
75 mm caliber and larger due to the similarity with the much larger naval armour piercing shells already in common use. As the war progressed, ordnance...
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Iron armour was a type of naval armour used on warships and, to a limited degree, fortifications. The use of iron gave rise to the term ironclad as a...
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Belt armor (redirect from Belt armour)
be seriously damaged underwater not only by torpedoes, but also by heavy naval artillery shells that plunge into the ocean very close to the targeted ship...
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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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All or nothing (armor) (redirect from All or Nothing (Battleship armour))
All or nothing is a method of naval warship armor, best known for its employment on dreadnought battleships. The concept involves heavily armoring the...
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Special treatment steel (category Naval armour)
Metallurgical Properties of Naval Armor and Construction Materials - NavWeaps". www.navweaps.com. Retrieved 2018-01-20. Gene Slover. "Armour chapter XII". Gene...
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"Harvey" or "Harvey Smith", term for the V sign Harvey armor, a type of naval armour Harvey F.C., a soccer team from Harvey, Illinois, USA Harvey mannequin...
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Ironclad warship (category Naval armour)
Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-022-1. Campbell, John (1992). "Naval Armaments and Armour". In Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Steam, Steel and Shellfire: The Steam...
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HMS Warrior (1860) (section Armour)
engine, and screw propeller; only her wrought-iron armour was a major technological advance. Naval architect and historian David K. Brown wrote, "What...
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Harvey armor (redirect from Harveyized armour)
Harvey armor was a type of steel naval armor developed in the early 1890s in which the front surfaces of the plates were case hardened. The method for...
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Armoured flight deck (category Naval armour)
flight deck is an aircraft carrier flight deck that incorporates substantial armour in its design. Comparison is often made between the carrier designs of the...
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Warship (category Naval warfare)
explosive shells soon led to the introduction of iron, and later steel, naval armour for the sides and decks of larger warships. The first ironclad warships...
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Armored citadel (category Naval armour)
typically in case of piracy. In warships, the All or nothing technique on naval vessel armor is known for its use on dreadnought battleships. The concept...
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The BL 14-inch Mk VII naval gun was a breech loading (BL) gun designed for the battleships of the Royal Navy in the late 1930s. This gun armed the King...
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Anti-torpedo bulge (category Naval armour)
bulge (also known as an anti-torpedo blister) is a form of defence against naval torpedoes occasionally employed in warship construction in the period between...
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Torpedo belt (category Naval armour)
In theory this belt would absorb the explosions from torpedoes, or any naval artillery shells that struck below the waterline, and thus minimize internal...
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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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Korean armour is armour that was traditionally used in ancient times by Koreans, those fighting in and on behalf of Korea, or Koreans fighting overseas...
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Battlecruiser (section Naval rearmament)
British naval circles that cruisers should displace battleships entirely. The battleship's main advantage was its 12-inch heavy guns, and heavier armour designed...
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Zone of immunity (category Naval armour)
or near vertical, belt armour which protects against missiles (shells) travelling horizontally, and horizontal deck armour, which protects against plunging...
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battleship Bismarck, provided with 14-inch thick armour, which is said to resemble a "Swiss cheese". The last naval treaty had an escalator clause that permitted...
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