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154 relations: Active protection system, Admiralty (United Kingdom), Aircraft, Aircraft carrier, Airframe, Aluminium, Aluminium oxynitride, Ammunition, Angle, Anti-tank guided missile, Anti-tank warfare, Aramid, Armor-piercing bullet, Armored car (military), Armored car (valuables), Armour, Armoured fighting vehicle, Armoured flight deck, Armoured personnel carrier, Armoured warfare, Battlecruiser, Battleship, Belt armor, Bird strike, Bitumen, Body armor, Buckypaper, Bullet, Buoyancy, Carjacking, Ceramic, Chobham armour, Cold War, Combat vehicle, Combination K, Composite armour, Composite material, Copper, Cruiser, Crystallite, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Depleted uranium, Design, Detonation, Ejection seat, Electric armour, Electric charge, Ethylene-vinyl acetate, Explosive, Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, ... Expand index (104 more) »
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Active protection system
An active protection system (APS) is a system designed to actively prevent certain anti-tank weapons from destroying a vehicle.
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Admiralty (United Kingdom)
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
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Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
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Aircraft carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft.
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Airframe
The mechanical structure of an aircraft is known as the airframe.
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Aluminium
Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.
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Aluminium oxynitride
Aluminium oxynitride (marketed under the name ALON by Surmet Corporation) is a transparent ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen.
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Ammunition
Ammunition is the material fired, scattered, dropped, or detonated from any weapon or weapon system.
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Angle
In Euclidean geometry, an angle is the figure formed by two rays, called the sides of the angle, sharing a common endpoint, called the vertex of the angle.
Anti-tank guided missile
An anti-tank guided missile (ATGM), anti-tank missile, anti-tank guided weapon (ATGW) or anti-armor guided weapon is a guided missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily armored military vehicles.
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Anti-tank warfare
Anti-tank warfare originated during World War I from the desire to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks.
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Aramid
Aramid fibers, short for aromatic polyamide, are a class of heat-resistant and strong synthetic fibers.
Armor-piercing bullet
Armor-piercing bullets for rifle and handgun cartridges are designed to penetrate ballistic armor and protective shields intended to stop or deflect conventional bullets.
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Armored car (military)
A military armored (also spelled armoured) car is a wheeled armored fighting vehicle, historically employed for reconnaissance, internal security, armed escort, and other subordinate battlefield tasks.
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Armored car (valuables)
An armored vehicle (also known as an armored cash transport car, security van, or armored truck) is an armored van or truck used to transport valuables, such as large quantities of money or other valuables, especially for banks or retail companies.
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Armour
Armour (Commonwealth English) or armor (American English; see spelling differences) is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or from a potentially dangerous environment or activity (e.g.
Armoured fighting vehicle
An armoured fighting vehicle (British English) or armored fighting vehicle (American English) (AFV) is an armed combat vehicle protected by armour, generally combining operational mobility with offensive and defensive capabilities.
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Armoured flight deck
An armoured flight deck is an aircraft carrier flight deck that incorporates substantial armour in its design.
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Armoured personnel carrier
An armoured personnel carrier (APC) is a broad type of armoured military vehicle designed to transport personnel and equipment in combat zones.
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Armoured warfare
Armoured warfare or armored warfare (American English; see spelling differences), is the use of armoured fighting vehicles in modern warfare.
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Battlecruiser
The battlecruiser (also written as battle cruiser or battle-cruiser) was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century.
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Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large-caliber guns, designed to serve as capital ships with the most intense firepower.
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Belt armor
Belt armor is a layer of heavy metal armor plated onto or within the outer hulls of warships, typically on battleships, battlecruisers and cruisers, and aircraft carriers.
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Bird strike
A bird strike (sometimes called birdstrike, bird ingestion (for an engine), bird hit, or bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH)) is a collision between an airborne animal (usually a bird or bat) and a moving vehicle (usually an aircraft).
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Bitumen
Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.
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Body armor
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 or close-fitting hands-free shields designed to absorb or deflect physical attacks.
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Buckypaper
Buckypaper is a thin sheet made from an aggregate of carbon nanotubes or carbon nanotube grid paper.
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Bullet
A bullet is a kinetic projectile, a component of firearm ammunition that is shot from a gun barrel.
Buoyancy
Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.
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Carjacking
Carjacking is a robbery in which a motor vehicle is taken over.
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Ceramic
A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.
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Chobham armour
Chobham armour is the informal name of a composite armour developed in the 1960s at the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment, a British tank research centre on Chobham Lane in Chertsey. Vehicle armour and Chobham armour are history of the tank.
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Cold War
The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Combat vehicle
A ground combat vehicle, also known as a land assault vehicle or simply a combat vehicle or an assault vehicle, is a land-based military vehicle intended to be used for combat operations.
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Combination K
Combination K is a type of composite armor.
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Composite armour
Composite armour is a type of vehicle armour consisting of layers of different materials such as metals, plastics, ceramics or air.
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Composite material
A composite material (also called a composition material or shortened to composite, which is the common name) is a material which is produced from two or more constituent materials.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship.
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Crystallite
A crystallite is a small or even microscopic crystal which forms, for example, during the cooling of many materials.
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Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.
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Depleted uranium
Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235U than natural uranium.
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Design
A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system.
Detonation
Detonation is a type of combustion involving a supersonic exothermic front accelerating through a medium that eventually drives a shock front propagating directly in front of it.
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Ejection seat
In aircraft, an ejection seat or ejector seat is a system designed to rescue the pilot or other crew of an aircraft (usually military) in an emergency.
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Electric armour
Electric armour or electromagnetic armour is a type of reactive armour proposed for the protection of ships and armoured fighting vehicles from shaped charge and possibly kinetic weapons using a strong electric current, complementing or replacing conventional explosive reacting armour (ERA).
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Electric charge
Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.
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Ethylene-vinyl acetate
Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA), also known as poly(ethylene-vinyl acetate) (PEVA), is a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate.
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Explosive
An explosive (or explosive material) is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
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Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the United States Air Force (USAF).
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Fiberglass
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber.
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Firearm
A firearm is any type of gun that uses an explosive charge and is designed to be readily carried and used by an individual.
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Flight deck
The flight deck of an aircraft carrier is the surface from which its aircraft take off and land, essentially a miniature airfield at sea.
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Fragmentation (weaponry)
Fragmentation is the process by which the casing, shot, or other components of an anti-personnel weapon, bomb, barrel bomb, land mine, IED, artillery, mortar, tank gun, or autocannon shell, rocket, missile, grenade, etc.
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Future Rapid Effect System
The Future Rapid Effect System (FRES) was the name for the British Ministry of Defence (MOD) programme to deliver a fleet of more than 4,000 armoured fighting vehicles for the British Army.
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Gas turbine
A gas turbine, gas turbine engine, or also known by its old name internal combustion turbine, is a type of continuous flow internal combustion engine.
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Glacis
A glacis in military engineering is an artificial slope as part of a medieval castle or in early modern fortresses.
Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.
Granite
Granite is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase.
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Gun truck
A gun truck is an armored vehicle with one or more crew-served weapons, typically based on a commercial vehicle.
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Hangar
A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft.
Heavy metals
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High-explosive anti-tank
High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) is the effect of a shaped charge explosive that uses the Munroe effect to penetrate heavy armor. Vehicle armour and High-explosive anti-tank are history of the tank.
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High-explosive squash head
A high-explosive squash head (HESH), in British terminology, or a high-explosive plastic/plasticized (HEP), in American terminology, is a type of explosive projectile with plastic explosive that conforms to the surface of a target before detonating, which improves the transfer of explosive energy to the target. Vehicle armour and high-explosive squash head are history of the tank.
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Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
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Hull (watercraft)
A hull is the watertight body of a ship, boat, submarine, or flying boat.
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Humvee
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV; colloquial: Humvee) is a family of light, four-wheel drive, military trucks and utility vehicles produced by AM General.
Improvised explosive device
An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action.
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Improvised vehicle armour
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 and extemporized fashion using available materials.
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Iron armour
Iron armour was a type of naval armour used on warships and, to a limited degree, fortifications.
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Ironclad warship
An ironclad was a steam-propelled warship protected by steel or iron armor constructed from 1859 to the early 1890s.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jet engine
A jet engine is a type of reaction engine, discharging a fast-moving jet of heated gas (usually air) that generates thrust by jet propulsion.
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Journalist
A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public.
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Kevlar
Kevlar (para-aramid) is a strong, heat-resistant synthetic fiber, related to other aramids such as Nomex and Technora.
Kinetic energy
In physics, the kinetic energy of an object is the form of energy that it possesses due to its motion.
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Kinetic energy penetrator
A kinetic energy penetrator (KEP), also known as long-rod penetrator (LRP), is a type of ammunition designed to penetrate vehicle armour using a flechette-like, high-sectional density projectile.
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Kontakt-5
Kontakt-5 is a type of second-generation explosive reactive armour (ERA) originating in the Soviet Union.
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Laminated glass
Laminated glass is a type of safety glass consisting of two or more layers of glass with one or more thin polymer interlayers between them which prevent the glass from breaking into large sharp pieces.
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Lamination
μCT scanning) through the length of a knitting needle that consists of laminated wooden layers: the layers can be differentiated by the change of direction of the wood's vessels Shattered windshield lamination keeps shards in place Laminate flooring A flexible thin-film solar cell for aerospace use (2007) Lamination is the technique/process of manufacturing a material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength, stability, sound insulation, appearance, or other properties from the use of the differing materials, such as plastic.
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Land mine
A land mine, or landmine, is an explosive weapon concealed under or camouflaged on the ground, and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets, ranging from combatants to vehicles and tanks, as they pass over or near it.
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Limestone
Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.
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M1 Abrams
The M1 Abrams is a third-generation American main battle tank designed by Chrysler Defense (now General Dynamics Land Systems) and named for General Creighton Abrams.
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M4 Sherman
The M4 Sherman, officially Medium Tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. Vehicle armour and m4 Sherman are history of the tank.
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Main battle tank
A main battle tank (MBT), also known as a battle tank or universal tank,Ogorkiewicz 2018 p222 is a tank that fills the role of armour-protected direct fire and maneuver in many modern armies.
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Marvin Heemeyer
Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, in 2004.
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Merchant ship
A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire.
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Merkava
The Merkava (מרכבה,, "chariot") is a series of main battle tanks (MBT) used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the backbone of the IDF's Armored Corps.
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Metal foam
Regular foamed aluminium In materials science, a metal foam is a material or structure consisting of a solid metal (frequently aluminium) with gas-filled pores comprising a large portion of the volume.
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Micrometeoroid
A micrometeoroid is a tiny meteoroid: a small particle of rock in space, usually weighing less than a gram.
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Mil Mi-24
The Mil Mi-24 (Миль Ми-24; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity troop transport with room for eight passengers.
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Military
A military, also known collectively as an armed forces, are a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare.
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Military aviation
Military aviation comprises military aircraft and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare, including national airlift (air cargo) capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a war theater or along a front.
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Military vehicle
A military vehicle is any vehicle for land-based military transport and activity, including combat vehicles, both specifically designed for or significantly used by military.
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Missile
A missile is an airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight aided usually by a propellant, jet engine or rocket motor.
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Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials describe, in principle, chemical substances or materials of which a single unit is sized (in at least one dimension) between 1 and 100 nm (the usual definition of nanoscale).
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Non-military armoured vehicle
Non-military armoured vehicles (or paramilitary armoured vehicles if used by a paramilitary) are armoured vehicles used outside professional armed forces.
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Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011)
The Occupation of Iraq (2003–2011) was characterized by a large United States military deployment on Iraqi territory, beginning with the US-led invasion of the country in March 2003 which overthrew the Ba'ath Party government of Saddam Hussein and ending with the departure of US troops from the country in 2011.
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Official
An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless of whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior or employer, public or legally private).
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Official state car
An official state car is a vehicle used by a government to transport its head of state or head of government in an official capacity, which may also be used occasionally to transport other members of the government or visiting dignitaries from other countries.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Panzer IV
The Panzerkampfwagen IV (Pz.Kpfw. IV), commonly known as the Panzer IV, is a German medium tank developed in the late 1930s and used extensively during the Second World War. Vehicle armour and Panzer IV are history of the tank.
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Perpendicular
In geometry, two geometric objects are perpendicular if their intersection forms right angles (angles that are 90 degrees or π/2 radians wide) at the point of intersection called a foot.
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Plastic armour
Plastic armour (also known as plastic protection) was a type of vehicle armour originally developed for merchant ships by Edward Terrell of the British Admiralty in 1940.
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Polycarbonate
Polycarbonates (PC) are a group of thermoplastic polymers containing carbonate groups in their chemical structures.
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Polyurethane
Polyurethane (often abbreviated PUR and PU) refers to a class of polymers composed of organic units joined by carbamate (urethane) links.
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Polyvinyl butyral
Polyvinyl butyral (or PVB) is a resin mostly used for applications that require strong binding, optical clarity, adhesion to many surfaces, toughness and flexibility.
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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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Robbery
Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.
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Rocket (weapon)
In military terminology, a rocket is a self-propelled, unguided or guided, weapon-system powered by a rocket engine.
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Rolled homogeneous armour
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 to layered or cemented armour.
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RPG-27
The RPG-27 is a Soviet single shot disposable rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) shoulder-fired missile and rocket launcher.
RPG-29
The RPG-29 "Vampir" is a Soviet reusable rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher.
Saint-Chamond (tank)
The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank to enter service during the First World War, with 400 manufactured from April 1917 to July 1918. Vehicle armour and Saint-Chamond (tank) are history of the tank.
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Schneider CA1
The Schneider CA 1 (originally named the Schneider CA) was the first French tank, developed during the First World War. Vehicle armour and Schneider CA1 are history of the tank.
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Shaped charge
A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy.
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Shell (projectile)
A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling.
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Ship
A ship is a large vessel that travels the world's oceans and other navigable waterways, carrying cargo or passengers, or in support of specialized missions, such as defense, research and fishing.
Slat armor
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 against high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) attacks, as used by anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs) and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs). Vehicle armour and slat armor are armoured warfare.
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Sloped armour
Sloped armour is armour that is oriented neither vertically nor horizontally.
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Space debris
Space debris (also known as space junk, space pollution, space waste, space trash, space garbage, or cosmic debris) are defunct human-made objects in spaceprincipally in Earth orbitwhich no longer serve a useful function.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
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Specific strength
The specific strength is a material's (or muscle's) strength (force per unit area at failure) divided by its density.
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Spectra Shield
Spectra Shield is a composite material (specifically, an ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber) used in bulletproof vests and vehicle armour.
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Steel
Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with improved strength and fracture resistance compared to other forms of iron.
Steel casting
Steel casting is a specialized form of casting involving various types of steel cast to either final/net or near-net shape.
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Sukhoi Su-25
The Sukhoi Su-25 Grach (Грач (rook); NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi.
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Survivability
Survivability is the ability to remain alive or continue to exist.
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T-34
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II. Vehicle armour and t-34 are history of the tank.
T-54/T-55
The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War.
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T-62
The T-62 is a Soviet main battle tank that was first introduced in 1961.
T-64
The T-64 is a Soviet tank manufactured in Kharkiv, and designed by Alexander Morozov.
T-72
The T-72 is a family of Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1971.
Tandem-charge
A tandem-charge or dual-charge weapon is an explosive device or projectile that has two or more stages of detonation, assisting it to penetrate either reactive armour on an armoured vehicle or strong structures.
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Tank
A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Vehicle armour and tank are armoured warfare.
Thermoplastic
A thermoplastic, or thermosoftening plastic, is any plastic polymer material that becomes pliable or moldable at a certain elevated temperature and solidifies upon cooling.
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Titanium
Titanium is a chemical element; it has symbol Ti and atomic number 22.
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Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target.
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Torpedo bulkhead
A torpedo bulkhead is a type of naval armor common on the more heavily armored warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century.
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Transparency and translucency
In the field of optics, transparency (also called pellucidity or diaphaneity) is the physical property of allowing light to pass through the material without appreciable scattering of light.
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Turbine blade
A turbine blade is a radial aerofoil mounted in the rim of a turbine disc and which produces a tangential force which rotates a turbine rotor.
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Twaron
Twaron (a brand name of Teijin Aramid) is a para-aramid, high-performance yarn.
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene
Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE, UHMW) is a subset of the thermoplastic polyethylene.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United States Air Force
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.
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V-hull
The V-hull is a type of vehicle armor design used on wheeled armored personnel carriers (APCs), infantry mobility vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) and MRAPs. Vehicle armour and v-hull are armoured warfare.
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
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Waterline
The waterline is the line where the hull of a ship meets the surface of the water.
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Weapon of mass destruction
A weapon of mass destruction (WMD) is a biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, or any other weapon that can kill or significantly harm many people or cause great damage to artificial structures (e.g., buildings), natural structures (e.g., mountains), or the biosphere.
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Whipple shield
The Whipple shield or Whipple bumper, invented by Fred Whipple,.
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Withdrawal (military)
A tactical withdrawal or retreating defensive action is a type of military operation, generally meaning that retreating forces draw back while maintaining contact with the enemy.
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Wood
Wood is a structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.
World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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See also
Armoured warfare
- École de cavalerie, Saumur
- Anti-tank mine
- Armored Train Regiment (Estonia)
- Armoured spearhead
- Armoured warfare
- Armoured warfare of the Islamic State
- Battle sled
- Behind-armor debris
- Blitzkrieg
- Boiling vessel
- Catastrophic kill
- Chemical Warfare Service: Flame Tank Group Seabees
- Combined arms
- Flame tank
- German tanks in World War II
- Gun stabilizer
- History of the tank
- Hull down
- Infantry fighting vehicle
- Jack-in-the-box effect
- List of gun-launched missiles
- List of main battle tanks by generation
- Mechanization
- Mechanized infantry
- Mobility kill
- Pike nose
- Separate tank battalion
- Slat armor
- Tank
- Tank classification
- Tank destroyer battalion (United States)
- URI Purposely Built Vehicles
- V-hull
- Vehicle armour
- Windhoeker Maschinenfabrik
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Also known as Aircraft armor, Aircraft armour, Appliqué armor, Appliqué armour, Armor plate, Armor plates, Armor plating, Armored military vehicle, Armored van, Armored vehicle, Armored vehicles, Armour Plates, Armour plate, Armour plating, Armoured vehicles, Bomb resistant vehicles, IED resistant vehicles, Modular armor, Spall liner, Spall liners, Tank armor, Tank armour, Vehicle armor.