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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Gothic plate armour (German: Gotischer Plattenpanzer) was the type of steel plate armour made in the Holy Roman Empire during the 15th century. While...
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Mail and plate armour (plated mail, plated chainmail, splinted mail/chainmail) is a type of mail with embedded plates. Armour of this type has been used...
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armour were commonly used at different times by various cultures, including scale armour, lamellar armour, laminar armour, plated mail, mail, plate armour...
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Lamellar armour is a type of body armour made from small rectangular plates (scales or lamellae) of iron, steel, leather (rawhide), bone, or bronze laced...
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continued to use both plate and lamellar armour as a symbol of their status. Ōyamazumi Shrine is known as a treasure house of Japanese armour. It houses 40%...
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strikes the upper plate of the armour, it detonates the inner explosive, releasing blunt damage that the tank can absorb. Reactive armour is intended to...
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between plastic armour and the steel backing plate. Plastic armour could be applied by pouring it into a cavity formed by the steel backing plate and a temporary...
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A ballistic plate, also known as an armour plate, is a protective armoured plate inserted into a carrier or bulletproof vest, that can be used stand-alone...
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battleships and cruisers. Sloping an armour plate makes it more difficult to penetrate by anti-tank weapons, such as armour-piercing shells, kinetic energy...
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broader informal term referring to any armour arrangement comprising sandwich reactive plates, including Chobham armour. Within the Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
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various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part...
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White armour, or alwyte armour, was a form of plate armour worn in the Late Middle Ages characterized by full-body steel plate without a surcoat. Around...
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of plates is a form of segmented torso armour consisting of overlapping metal plates riveted inside a cloth or leather garment. The coat of plates is...
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Chain mail (redirect from Mail (armour))
Brigandine Coat of plates Lamellar armour Mirror armour (supplementary plates worn over mail) Scale armour Splint armour Transitional armour Others: Cataphract...
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to be plate armour and tightly fitted, and covered the chest. The word kavaca is used in Atharva Veda in the sense of a corselet breast plate as opposed...
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Armour with two or more plates spaced a distance apart falls under the category of spaced armour. Spaced armour can be sloped or unsloped. When sloped...
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Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing...
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Laminar armour (from Latin: lamina – layer) is an armour made from horizontal overlapping rows or bands of, usually small, solid armour plates called lames...
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foot soldiers and mounted cuirassiers. During the Late Middle Ages, plate armour was expensive and tailor-made for the wearer. Consequently, it was generally...
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typically show it on the limbs of a person wearing mail, scale armour, a coat of plates or other plate harness. Knights in effigy are depicted with leg protection...
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rectangular armour plates. Mirror armor was used in some cultures up to the 20th century. "Mirror armour" is a type of partial plate armour which was developed...
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Brigandine (category Western plate armour)
small oblong steel plates riveted to the fabric, sometimes with a second layer of fabric on the inside. Protective clothing and armour have been used by...
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A jack of plate is a type of armour made up of small iron plates sewn between layers of felt and canvas. They were commonly referred to simply as a "jack"...
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Maximilian armour is a modern term applied to the style of early 16th-century German plate armour associated with, and possibly first made for the Emperor...
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for protection. Lamellar armour was supplemented by scale armour since the Warring States period or earlier. Partial plate armour was popular from the Eastern...
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Breastplate (redirect from Breast plate)
status. In medieval weaponry, the breastplate is the front portion of plate armour covering the torso. It has been a military mainstay since ancient times...
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Transitional armour describes the armour used in Europe around the 13th and 14th centuries, as body armour moved from simple mail hauberks to full plate armour. The...
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which is in the 477-534 range. Slat armour Sloped armour Spaced armour MIL-DTL-12560J (2009-07-24). "Armor Plate, Steel, Wrought, Homogeneous (for Use...
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add-on plates of armour of varying thickness (including the well-known Schürzen add-on side armour plating), cement and timber to increase the armour of their...
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