at all, this type of armour was the beginning of platearmour development in Japanese armour. At the beginning of the sengoku Sengoku period Japanese armour typically had two versions expensive and inexpensive ... worn with lamellar or laminar cod piece and loin guard , or even with mirror armour mirror plate ... variations of laminar armour could be re enforced by mirror armour mirror plate even though laminar ... worn with Manica armguard manica Laminar armour from lang la laminae layer , sometimes confusingly referred to as banded mail , is an armour made from horizontal overlapping rows or bands of solid armour ..., 9781841767130 P.16 ref as opposed to lamellar armour which is made from individual armor scales laced together to form a solid looking strip of armor. Prominent examples of such armour are lorica ... University, Digitized Mar 17, 2009 P.82 83 ref and certain versions of Japanese armour samurai armour . Less known examples were present in Asia from Iran to Mongolia , including Central Asia. In the 16th century laminar and lamellar armour was superseded by plated mail in the Middle East and Central Asia, remaining mainly in Mongolia. Ancient laminar armour main Lorica segmentata Manica armguard Medieval laminar armour Japanese laminar armour main Japanese armour Pre Samurai armour refimprove section date July 2011 Image KofunCuirass.jpg thumb Japanese Kofun period armour . An iron helmet .... Samurai armour File Kiritsuke iyozane dou d .JPG thumb Japanese samurai Kiritsuke iyozane dou ... time consuming process. ref http books.google.com books?id q5KBjpGSRgkC&pg PA91&dq samurai plate ... wider scales. Japanese Laminar armour was a less expensive and easier to construct type of armour which ... and they were assembled into armor items in the same way that the rows of lamellar armour were ... plates and true lamellar plates become less popular as plate armor started to be used more frequently ... dou d , constructed of horizontal strips of armour joined not by laces, but by rivets or staples imitating ... more details
which would then lodge between plastic armour and the steel backing plate. Plastic armour could be applied ... armour can both increase its protection. Given a fixed thickness of armourplate, a projectile striking ... fabricated steel armourplate. ref name Gardiner Gardiner, Paul S. http www.almc.army.mil alog ... normal to the surface of the armour, its plate thickness, increasing armour slope improves ...about body armourarmour armoured forces armoured warfare other uses armour disambiguation File Abrams ... composite armour composite , reactive armor reactive , and slat armor slat armour Military vehicle s are commonly ... hijacking of the 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 protect them against impacts ... have them fitted with a sort of armour in the form of an aramid composite kevlar bandage around ... accessdate 2012 01 29 ref The design and purpose of the vehicle determines the amount of armour plating carried, as the plating is often very heavy and excessive amounts of armour restrict mobility. In order ... vehicles could be made of buckypaper title Buckypaper armour publisher Slipperybrick.com date 2008 10 19 accessdate 2012 01 29 ref aluminium foam armour plates, ref cite web url http www.ntnu.no gemini 2009 spring 10.htm title Lightweight aluminum foam armour plates publisher Ntnu.no date accessdate 2012 01 29 ref ... Materials Expand section date December 2009 Metals Steel Rolled homogeneous armour ... on Armored personnel carrier APCs and Armored car military armoured cars . Iron Wrought Iron armour iron was used on ironclad warship s. Early European iron armour consisted of 10 to 13 cm of wrought ... expense. It is however considered to be superior to most other metal armour types. By whom date ... density, depleted uranium can also be used in tank armour, sandwiched between sheets of steel armourplate. For instance, some late production M1 Abrams M1A1HA and M1A2 Abrams tanks built after 1998 ... more details
discs or oblong mirrors. Description and history Mirror armour is a type of partial platearmour which was developed initially from round metal mirror s a kind of Rondel armour rondel worn over other armour usually over mail as enforcement. Metal mirrors in this armour were considered not only as protection ... mirror and lang ru dospekh armour . While the name krug was used only for a central round plate of mirror armour made from few plates, a single plate mirror armour was just called zertsalo . Cquote ... of a middle plate called the krug rondel armour rondel , side plates, upper plates above the krug ..., Rta pa.jpg Classic round mirror plate early type of mirror armour , traditionally worn ...refimprove date August 2011 File Shar ayna 4 mirrors armour cleaned .jpg thumb Classic 4 mirrors Chahar ... of similar construction, but evolved from boxshaped rigid lamellar armour File Antique Turkish mirror armour.jpg thumb Alternative mirror armour with discs Mirror armour Old East Slavic Zertsalo ... language pinyin Huxinjing, meaning Protect heart mirror , sometimes referred to as disc armour ... four , was a type of armour used in Asia and Europe up to the 17th Century. It literally translates ... could reflect the evil eye , so they were polished and worn over other armour. Early mirror armour ... Phalera military decoration phaelerae Late mirror armour took the form of a mirror cuirass , helmet, greave s, and bracer s worn with mail armour mail . There were two alternative constructions of mirror ... or yukinoshita dou d was that the right plate in Yukinoshita D Sendai D consisted of two overlapping ... of four, and open from the front. Early types of this armour were known among the Celtiberians , ref ... the Russian conquest , Mongolia , Indochina and China including Tibet too . Later types of this armour ... Warrior http www.kyrgyz.ru bbr bobrov 05.html illustrations of some kinds of mirror armour ref round metal mirrors worn by Mongol Empire Mongolian warriors as armour reinforcement are shown in Persian ... more details
File Maximilienne p1000557.jpg thumb Two rondels covering the vulnerable underarm section of a suit of armour A rondel is a circular piece of metal used for protection, as part of a harness of platearmour , or attached to a helmet , breastplate , couter or on a Gauntlet gloves gauntlet . Rondels most commonly hang off breastplates and cover the armpit, which is a vulnerable point. ref http www.armouronline.com encyclopedia of historical weapons 19 besagew.html ref . In this instance they are commonly known as besagews . They also appear on the back of a type of late medieval helmet known as the armet . Their purpose for this is unknown, though it has been surmised that they may protect strapping, or just be some sort of added protection. Rondels also appear uncommonly on the metacarpal part of some historical gauntlet designs, and appear in some period illustrations protecting the side of the head, and the point of the elbow where a fan may normally be . See also Besagews a kind of rondel for armpit protection Mirror armour oriental armour developed from local type of polished rondels, called as mirrors References references External links http www.armouronline.com encyclopedia of historical weapons 19 besagew.html http users.wpi.edu jforgeng HarnessIQP lHarness.html Leg Harness 1400 1620 description of historic developments in leg armour Elements of Medieval armor Category Medieval armour medieval armour stub ru ... more details
Refimprove date December 2009 Image Pz IVG latrun 4.jpg thumb Spaced armour PzKpfw IV around its turret. File Bundesarchiv Bild 101I 219 0595 23, Russland Mitte S d, Panzer III N.jpg thumb Spaced armour on Panzer III protecting the hull and turret, June 1943. Armour with two or more plates spaced a distance apart is called spaced armour . When sloped it reduces the penetrating power of bullets and solid shot as after penetrating each plate they tend to tumble, deflect, deform, or disintegrate when not sloped it increases the protection offered by the armour because explosive projectiles detonate ... armour in the form of armoured skirts, sch rzen , to make their thinner side armour more effective against anti tank fire. The principle of spaced armour protects against High explosive anti tank warhead ... metal, very effective at the focus point, but much less so beyond there. Relatively thin armour plates or even metal mesh, much lighter than fully protective armour, can be attached as side skirts or turret skirts on tanks and other armoured vehicles. This light armour detonates the warhead prematurely so that the jet of molten metal is focused well before the main armour, becoming relatively ineffective. Factory made and improvised stand off armour was introduced in the Second World War, however ... warheads, integral spaced armour was reintroduced in the 1960s on the German Leopard 1 . There are hollow spaces inside this type of armour, increasing the length of travel from the exterior of the vehicle to the interior for a given weight of armour, to reduce the shaped charge s penetrating power ... weight of armour can be distributed in 2 layers 15 cm 6 in thick instead of a single 30 ... tanks carry rubber skirts to protect their relatively fragile suspension and front belly armour. Whereas the material of normal armour is always a compromise between hardness and ductility, spaced armour can also comprise plates with different material properties to increase its effectiveness against ... more details
to the early Ming Dynasty, Chinese officers used platearmour, which were culturally decorated, for important body parts instead of covering their whole body since too much platearmour hinders ... military uniform of the Qianlong Emperor r. 1735&ndash 1796 . China has a long history of armour and weapons development. China has many varieties of armour, but the most were of the Lamellar armour lamellar , coat of plates , brigandine and scale armour scaled varieties. Ancient Armour Shang to Han Initially, armour was exclusively for nobles. The earliest known armour used by the warriors of the Shang dynasty was light plated armour made from turtle shells tied together with cords. Later, bronze and leather armour was introduced, and simple one piece breastplates, coat of plates and Lamellar armour lamellar cuirasses began to appear. Most of these were highly elaborate and decorated, and were ... s, so the weight of the armour was not a major factor in its construction. After the defeat of the Shang .... However, the Zhou incorporated some of their own different styles of armour. One type was the g ... came to be most common material. Another type of armour used by the Zhou was the wei jia , made of boiled ... armour used by the Zhou. Chariots were used extensively during the Spring and Autumn Period . The chariots ... was made up of noblemen, so all would have worn armour. Zhou chariots were protected by leather ... to provide all soldiers with armour. Armour was most common for wealthier or higher ranked soldiers. During the Warring States era, most armour was made of leather or bronze occasionally ... laced together to make a flexible and light coat of armour. Coat of plates consisted of hundreds ... Stone armour excavated from the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor During much of the Warring States period, most light cavalry units served as skirmishers thus armour for cavalry was rare, as it was not seen as necessary. Armour for heavier cavalry tended to be lighter than that of the infantry ... more details
for the lower legs and arms. Related Armor types Coat of plates Mirror Armor Scale armour Plated ... isbn 0 486 29288 6 See also Category Personal armour Category Medieval armour Types of armour medieval armour stub ru zh ... more details
of jet impact shifts with the plate bulging, increasing the effective thickness of the armour. This is almost ... Arena Active Protection System ARGES mine Composite armour Shtora For analysing reactive plate .... Image T72 Georgia.jpg thumb right A T 72 tank layered with reactive armour bricks. Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour that reacts in some way to the impact of a weapon to reduce the damage ... hardened long rod penetrators. The most common type is explosive reactive armour ERA , but variants include self limiting explosive reactive armour SLERA , non energetic reactive armour NERA , non explosive reactive armour NxRA , and electric reactive armour. Unlike ERA and SLERA, NERA and NxRA ... work by piercing the armour and killing the crew inside, disabling vital mechanical systems, or both. Reactive armour can be defeated with multiple hits in the same place, as by tandem charge weapons ... armour DYNA for T 72 MBT The idea of counterexplosion kontrvzryv in Russian in armour was first ... the accident, as well as a belief that Soviet tanks had sufficient armour, the research was ended ... researcher, Manfred Held in 1967 69. For the first time, reactive armour, created on the basis of the German ... War and was judged effective. Explosive reactive armour Image Indian Army T 90.jpg thumb left The advanced Kontakt 5 explosive reactive armour on this T 90 S is arranged in pairs of plates with a triangular profile Image IDET2007 reactive armor detail2.jpg thumb right Reactive armour detail Image Image Explosive Reactive Armor.png thumb right An element of explosive reactive armour consists of a sheet ... jet velocity versus the plate element. Second, since the plates are angled compared to the usual impact direction of shaped charge warheads, as the plates move outwards the impact point on the plate moves over time, requiring the jet to cut through fresh plate material. This second effect significantly increases the effective plate thickness during the impact. To be effective against kinetic ... more details
ship s was iron , wrought or cast. While cast iron has never been used for naval armour, it did ... example of cast iron armour for land use is the Gruson turret , first tested by the Prussia n government ... armour were headed by a government Special Committee on Iron, formed in 1861 by Secretary at War ... armour. Among its members was Sir William Fairbairn , a noted civil engineer civil and structural ... welded these lumps into one solid plate and shaped it to the required form and dimensions. Hammered iron plate was the armor used in the earliest ironclad vessels, including HMS Warrior HMS Warrior ... temperature and passing them between two iron rollers to become one plate of the required size. Rolled .... However, when the Special Committee tested both types of plate in 1863, it found that rolled iron ... worked together on how to more easily produce rolled plate, which became standard use in warships ... with iron armor. Early European iron armour consisted of between four and five inches roughly 10 to 13 .... ref Experiments were also carried out with laminated armour , but these did not lead to any improvements and single plates were preferred. Many ships made during the US Civil War used laminated armour .... Due to the ever increasing thickness of the armour, and the associated weight, proposals were made ... armour. Efforts to carry out these proposals failed for many reasons, primarily because the metallurgy at the time was not up to the task. By the mid to late 1870s iron armour started to give way to steel armour , which promised to reduce the thickness, and therefore the weight, of the armour. References ... 2012. references Naval armour Category Naval armour ... more details
composite add on armour kit manufactured by Composhield File Challenger2 Bergen Hohne Training Area 2.jpg thumb right 250px The British Army s Challenger 2 main battle tank uses Chobham armour . Image IDET2007 composite armor ballistic test.jpg thumb right 250px Ceramic aramid composite laminate armour ... tiles for vehicles Composite armour is a type of vehicle armour consisting of layers of different material such as metal s, plastics , ceramic s or air . Most composite armour are lighter than their all ... to design composite armour stronger, lighter and less voluminous than traditional armour ... armour steel armours . The capability of most materials for defeating HEAT follows the density law ... Cored Armor for the XM60 Tank ref History The earliest known composite armour for armoured vehicles ... siliceous cored armor which contained a plate of fused silica glass between rolled steel plates. The stopping power of glass exceeds that of armour steel on a thickness basis and in many cases glass ... the siliceous cored armour was at least considered for use, although it was not a feature of the production ... task force date September 2009 The first widespread use of a composite armour appears to have been on the Soviet T 64 . It used an armour known as Combination K , which apparently is glass reinforced ... changes to a fluid under constant pressure, allowing the armour to be moulded into curved ... to deal with these problems, the Soviets invested heavily in reactive armour , which allowed ... composite armour today is Chobham armour , first developed and used by the British in the experimental ... between two plates of steel armour, which was shown to dramatically increase the resistance to HEAT rounds, even in comparison to other composite armour designs. Chobham was such an improvement ... format PDF date accessdate 2011 07 02 ref Chobham type armour is currently in its third generation ... Type 96 98 and Type 99 tanks use modular composite armour. The adoption of Modular composite armour ... more details
File Go mai haramaki dou.jpg thumb Antique Edo period Japanese samurai 4 hinge 5 plate go mai dou or d that is opens in the back haramaki . Haramaki is a type chest armour dou or d worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan and their retainers. Description Haramaki were originally constructed with the same materials as the o yoroi but designed for foot soldiers to use as opposed to the o yoroi which was for mounted warfare. ref http books.google.com books?id eyMYelZlKekC&pg PA94&dq haramaki&hl en&ei vqhDTvzWDY7UiAL8iPTQAg&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 8&ved 0CE4Q6AEwBw v onepage&q haramaki&f true Samurai, warfare and the state in early medieval Japan Google eBook , Karl F. Friday, Psychology Press, 2004 P.94 ref Haramaki refers to any Japanese armour which is put on from the front and then fastened in the back with cords. Other types of dou d open from the side ni mai dou d , dou d maru , maru dou d instead of opening from the back as the haramaki dou d does. See also Japanese armour References reflist External links Commonscat Samurai armour http www.pbase.com joanseeuw haramaki traditional Haramaki photographs http www.sengokudaimyo.com Anthony Bryant s web site about construction and history of Japanese armor Japanese samurai weapons, armour and equipment Category Japanese armour Category Samurai armour de Haramaki fr Haramaki ja zh ... more details
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 wooden form. Production of the armour was by road .... No armourplate could be spared to protect the ship s bridges and gun positions so the Admiralty ... core of an armour piercing bullet so that it hits the backing plate at an angle, dispersing its ...Plastic armour also known as plastic protection was a type of vehicle armour originally developed for merchant ... on a half inch thick steel plate for mounting as gun shields and similar. It replaced the use of concrete ... when struck by armour piercing bullets. Plastic armour was highly effective at stopping armour piercing ... the vulnerable crew. However, the Admiralty had done no testing with armour piercing bullet s. When the fighting started in earnest, it became evident that concrete armour was almost useless against ... disappointing bullets went straight through the soft material and through a mild steel backing plate ... granite be used for plastic armour, whatever its material qualities, it probably did not hurt ... fortune. Terrell coined the oxymoron ic term plastic armour for his invention partly because it was plastic ... and a Dr Lee drafted a report detailing their efforts and giving a recipe for plastic armour &ndash ... from grit. The backing plate was vital it would usually be a fraction 1 4 inch 6 mm thick ... to cast plastic armour in situ between existing plates and temporary wooden Formwork shuttering ... for the task of armouring Britain s ships. Plastic armour was precisely what the navy needed, but at first ... met with representatives of DNC who rejected plastic armour out of hand. DMWD performed a series ... Excellent resulting in a glowing report cquote There is no doubt that Plastic Armour is very greatly ... and Plastic Armour fitted in its place. ref Pawle, 1956, p56. ref The report was forwarded to the DNC ..., 2003, p126. ref Armour was a potent word in the Royal Navy it conjured visions of the battleships ... more details
Studies, NIAS Press, 2002 ref changed the nature of warfare in Japan causing the Japanese armour makers to change the design of their armours from the centuries old lamellar armours to platearmour ... to use both plate and lamellar armour as a symbol of their status but traditional armours were no longer ... samurai suit of armour with a western style cuirass dou or d made of platearmour. Tokyo National Museum ... armour Commons Category M gami dou d M gami dou d five plate, four hinge go mai chest armours ... Armour in Japan has a history that goes back as far as the 4th century. ref http books.google.com ..., University of Hawaii Press, 1998 P.75 ref Japanese armour developed enormously over the centuries ... and foot troops. The pinnacle of Japanese lamellar armour is generally accepted as being the nihongo yoroi literally great armour type. History File Antique Japanese samurai O Yoroi armor 2.jpg thumb left Antique samurai yoroi armour from the Met museum. Japanese armour is thought to have evolved from the armour used in ancient China and Korea . ref http books.google.com books?id dCNioYQ1HfsC ... into the more familiar style of armour worn by the samurai known as the Dou d dou or d . Japanese armour makers started to use leather nerigawa and lacquer was used to weather proof the armor parts ... 20cuirass&f true Oriental Armour , H. Russell Robinson, Courier Dover Publications, 2002 P.i73 ref ... . Samurai acquired European armour including the cuirass and comb morion which they modified and combined with domestic armour as it provided better protection from the newly introduced matchlock ... Museum Samurai Armour CollectionVolume I Kabuto & Mengu , Trevor Absolon P.78 ref allowing samurai to continue wearing their armour despite the use of firearms. The era of warfare called the Sengoku ... chain armour jacket and armoured sleeves as well as other types of armour which could be worn ... security and would wear various types of kusari gusoku chain armour and shin and arm protection ... more details
using Chobham armour typically have a slab sided appearance. The backing plate reflects the impact ... plate s protecting against smaller projectiles, such as used in body armour and armoured ... plate and an elastic layer. Heavy metal modules This section is linked from Depleted uranium The armour ... plate. An improved version was later applied in helicopter seats. ref Richard Strickland, Jane s Armour ... type to be protected by Chobham armour Image Challenger1MBT.JPEG thumb 300px The British Army s Challenger 1 tank Challenger 1 was the second main battle tank to use Chobham armour Chobham armour is the name informally given to a composite armour developed in the 1960s at the British tank research ... vehicle armour . Other names informally given to Chobham Armour, include Burlington , and Dorchester Although the construction details of the Chobham Common armour remain a secret, it has been ... plate and several elastic layers. Due to the extreme hardness of the ceramics used, they offer superior ... 2 tank Challenger 2 tanks have been disclosed as being thus armoured. The armour was first tested in the context ... component content article 305 ref Despite being a British invention, for financial reasons the armour ... energy against it, has caused some to compare the effects of Chobham to those of reactive armour ... an inert but soft elastic material such as rubber, between two of the armour plates. The impact ... paths, so experiencing a greater thickness of armour than there is nominally, thus lowering ... armour protected tanks have been defeated by enemy fire in combat the relevance of individual cases of lost tanks for determining the protective qualities of Chobham armour is difficult to ascertain ... by a plate, both to reinforce the ceramic tiles from behind and to prevent deformation of the metal matrix by a kinetic impact. Typically the backing plate has half of the mass of the composite matrix ... s. Several assemblages can be stacked, depending on the available space this way the armour can be made ... more details
Image Scudamorehelmet.jpg thumb A Greenwich armour, made for Sir James Scudamore Greenwich armour was a distinctively English style of platearmour of the 16th and 17th centuries, produced by the Royal ... England, incorporating these forms into the armour. As the use of full plate in actual combat had ..., platearmour had adopted a stark and utilitarian form favoring thickness and protection from ... Armour Category Platearmour Category Tudor England Category English Renaissance ru ... of Greenwich armour designs for 24 different gentlemen, known as the Jacob Album after its creator, includes ... workshop represented the last flourishing of decorative armour making in England, and comprises ... Holbein d. J. 059.jpg thumb right 190px Nicholas Carew wearing an early Greenwich armour. The first .... The armour, currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , has a specially ... also has very wide sabatons in the Maximilian armour Maximilian style. Very similar in design ... of London and which is famous for its large codpiece . Golden Age File Armour of William Somerset.003 Tower of London.JPG thumb right 140px Armour of William Somerset, at the Tower of London After the reign of Henry VIII, the Greenwich armour began to evolve into a different and unique style. There were several defining characteristics of this second wave of armour. One was the mimicking of popular fashions of the time in the styles of the armour to reflect the individual wearer s taste in civilian ... these tassets. The armour of William Somerset, 3rd Earl of Worcester is also similarly styled. File Worcester3.JPG left thumb 140px William Somerset s armour as it originally appeared Another defining characteristic of Elizabethan era Greenwich armour is the extravagant use of colour in general to decorate the steel. Other schools of armour making, such as Maximilian armour Maximilian and Gothic platearmour Gothic , tended to emphasize the shaping of the metal itself, such as fluting and roping ... more details
, the Emperors Antoninus Pius and Severus both appear wearing corselets of scale armour. Scythians Image Roman scale armour detail.JPG thumb Fragment of Lorica squamata . Each plate has six holes ...refimprove date July 2011 File Dacian Scale Armour.JPG thumb right Dacia Dacian scale armour on Trajan s column . Scale armour is an early form of armour sometimes erroneously called scale mail consisting of many individual small armour scales plates of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing ... ref Scale armour was worn by warriors of many different cultures as well as their horses. The material ... availability. Types of scale armours Scale armour is armour in which the individual scales are sewn ... ref Lorica squamata is an ancient Roman armour of this type ref http books.google.com books?id ffG5hnLTtGMC ... for this type of scale armour. ref http books.google.com books?id sgPWAAAAMAAJ&pg PA55&dq gyorin&hl ... scales but constructed in a different manner have their own separate names such as lamellar armour ... Historical information Horses covered with scale armour are mentioned in the ancient Chinese book of poetry ... 1 2 , Google eBook , Berthold Laufer, s.n., 1914 P.306 ref Scale armour is not of frequent occurrence ... of scale armour which covers the shoulders and comes down below the belt. The Carnuntum monument .... The Scythians horse warriors appear to have used scale or possibly lamellar armour , evident both from contemporary illustrations and burial finds in the Kurgan s. The armour was made from small plates ... for war, some including armour, which may have inspired the Greek tales of Amazons . ref name anthonyd ... of the armour, the Schythian armour was made as breast and back plates, with separate shoulder pieces. Some finds indicate partial armour, where a leather shirt or similar garment have sewn on scales ... to construct Roman armour are called squamae ref http books.google.com books?id wBg7AAAAcAAJ&pg ... Jacob Schem, J.B. Lippincott, 1861 P.859 ref During Roman times scale armour lorica squamata ... more details
on a dou d Dou or d chest armour or cuirass are one of the major components of Japanese armour worn ... Ancient Japanese iron helmet and armour tanko from the Kofun period, 5th century. The tanko is the predecessor ... 794 to 1185 the Japanese cuirass evolved into the more familiar style of armour worn by the samurai known as the Commons Category Dou d dou or d . Japanese armour makers started to use hardened leather nerigawa along with iron in their armour construction and lacquer urushi was used to weather ... v onepage&q japanese 20cuirass&f true Oriental Armour , H. Russell Robinson, Courier Dover Publications ... armour as it provided better protection from the newly introduced matchlock musket s known ..., NIAS Press, 2002 ref along with a change in battle tactics caused the Japanese armour makers to change the design of the dou d from the centuries old lamellar armours to platearmour constructed from iron and steel plates, this type of armour was called tosei gusoku new armours . ref http books.google.com ... d were developed, this type of armour was called Commons Category Tameshi gusoku bullet tested tameshi ... true The Watanabe Art Museum Samurai Armour CollectionVolume I Kabuto & Mengu , Trevor Absolon P.78 ref allowing samurai to continue wearing their armour despite the use of firearms. The warfare of the Sengoku period 15th and 16th centuries required large quantities of armour to be produced for the ever ... Art Museum Samurai Armour Collection Volume I Kabuto & Mengu , Trevor Absolon P.130 ref dou or d ... both plate and lamellar dou d as a symbol of their status but traditional armours were no longer ... katabira chain armour jackets and armoured sleeves as well as other types of armour which could be worn ... security and would wear various types of kusari gusoku chain armour and shin and arm protection ... P.46 ref Dou d and other armour continued to be worn and used in Japan until the end of the samurai era Meiji period in the 1860s, with the last use of samurai armour happening in 1877 during the Satsuma ... more details
Wiktionary armour armor Armour or Armor American spelling is protective covering the terms Armour or armor may also refer to notoc Protective Clothing Personal armor , protective clothing Military and naval An armoured fighting vehicle Vehicle armour , protection for vehicles or warships The metal belt armour , deck armor, turret armor, and command citadel armor of battleship and cruisers Protection or technology ARMOR Doppler Weather Radar ASCII Armor, term relating to binary to text encoding Armor hydrology , beaches, stream or river beds which have significant rock or boulder occurrence Armour anatomy , anatomical body protection Armour Thyroid or Armour brand medication , a thyroid supplement made of desiccated thyroid extract from pigs Places Armour, South Dakota Armour, Ontario C tes d Armor is Breton for by the sea and means the part of Brittany on or near the coast People Philip Danforth Armour 1832 1901 , meatpacker and businessman, founder of Armour and Company Andrew Watson Armour III 1908 1991 , Armour and Company president, relative of Philip Danforth Armour Richard Armour 1906 1989 , American author and poet Organizations Armour and Company , slaughterhouse and meat packers Armour Mission , a charitable organization founded by Philip Danforth ArmourArmour Institute of Technology 1893 , merged with Illinois Institute of Technology in 1940 Media and entertainment Armor novel Armor novel , by John Steakley Armor magazine Armor magazine , journal of the U.S. Army s Armor Branch Armor comics Armor comics , Marvel Comics character Armored film Armored film , 2009, directed by Nimrod Antal Armor album Armor album , by Janus Disambig geo surname de Armour fr Armor homonymie he lt arvas nl Armour pt Armour ... more details
Use dmy dates date April 2012 about the early 20th century golfer current golfer Tommy Armour III Infobox golfer name Tommy Armour image TommyArmour1927.jpg imagesize 200px caption fullname Thomas Dickson Armour nickname birth date birth date df yes 1894 9 24 ref name birth birth place Edinburgh , Scotland ... or award award2 year2 awardssection location of awards page or section Thomas Dickson Armour 24 September 1894 ref name birth Some sources indicate Armour was born in 1895 ref 11 September 1968 was a Scottish American professional golfer . He was nicknamed The Silver Scot . Armour was born ... service in World War I , Armour rose from a private to Staff Major in the Tank Corps . His conduct ... gas explosion and surgeons had to add a metal plate to his head and left arm. During his convalescence, he regained the sight of his right eye and took to golfing. Armour won the French Amateur ... citizen at this time. In 1924 Armour became a professional golfer. Armour won the 1927 U.S. Open ... 1930 campaign was overshadowed by Bobby Jones golfer Bobby Jones Grand Slam, and Armour seems to have been overlooked. At the Shawnee Open in 1927, Armour shot the first ever Archaeopteryx 15 or more .... Armour retired from professional golf after the 1935 season and taught at the Boca Raton Club in Florida ... War II , Armour played in exhibitions for United Service Organizations USO and Red Cross . Armour ..., Grip and Stance. Armour died in Larchmont, New York Larchmont , New York, and was cremated at the Ferncliff ... golf equipment is still marketed in his name. Armour is succeeded by his grandson, Tommy Armour ... score on 72 holes 254 , which he set in his second PGA Tour victory at the Valero Texas Open . Armour ... Armour 76 4 , Cooper 79 7 . br Note The PGA Championship was match play until 1958 Results timeline ... armour Biography of Tommy Armour http www.hkgolfer.com features tommy armour greatest Tommy Armour The Greatest Dr Milton Wayne navboxes title Tommy Armour in the Major Championships list1 U.S. Open ... more details
of a leather lamellar armour cuirass Lamellar armour was one of three early body armour types made from armour plates. The other two types are scale armour and laminar armour . Description File Lamellar lacing.gif thumb One example of how lamellar armour is laced together File Nerigawa hon kozane close up .JPG thumb Close up view of Japanese samurai hon kozane , lamellar armour constructed with small individual scales. Lamellar armour consists of hundreds of small rectangular iron, leather, or bronze ... rows to the proper length needed to construct a particular armour item. When the lamellae are made .... The rows of lamellar armour resemble scale armour , but differ by not needing a cloth or leather backing for the lamellae, and the lamellae are pierced in many more locations. Lamellar armour eventually overtook scale armour in popularity as lamellar restricted the users movements much less than scale armour. ref http books.google.com books?id Kh to448NTEC&pg PA7&dq scale armour&hl en&sa X&ei 0qaPT7vgMYie8QTVzPyfBA&ved 0CEEQ6AEwADgK v onepage&q scale 20armour&f false Oriental Armour , H. Russell ... and history File Koryak armor.jpeg thumb left Lamellar armour worn by native Siberians and Eskimos Lamellar armour was often worn as augmentation to existing armour, such as over a mail hauberk . The lamellar ... to create a more deflective surface to the rider s armour, thus allowing blades to skim ..., Australia , suggest that Byzantine lamellar armour was significantly superior to chain mail. ref ... soldiers have been argued as portraying the earliest examples of lamellar armour, particularly ... that possible examples of lamellar appear in the archaeological record. Among finds of Assyrian armour ... armour Citation needed date May 2007 as well as others that appear to be lamellar, and there exist ... through the 16th century. Lamellar armour is generally associated with the armour worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan, although it came to Japan from Korea. sfn Robinson 2002 p 10 Lamellar armour ... more details
Anthony Armour is a rugby league player. Anthony Armour has previously played for London Broncos London Broncos London Broncos in the European Super League . References reflist External links http rugbyleagueproject.com players teams Harlequins RL.html Rugby League Project stats Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Armour, Anthony ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Armour, Anthony Category Living people Category London Broncos players ... more details
an extremely small poncho. Plackard Extra layer of armour to cover the belly. Fauldsplatearmour Fauld Bands to protect the front waist and hips, attached to cuirass. Culet armour Culet Small, horizontal ... Extra plate that covers the front of the shoulder, worn over top of a pauldron. Rerebrace or Brassart or Upper Cannon of Vambrace Plate that covers the section of upper arm from elbow to area covered by shoulder armour. Besagews Besagew Circular plate that covers the armpit, typically worn with spaulders ... the foot, often mail or plate. Tasset or Tuille Bands hanging from faulds or breastplate to protect ... or Arming Doublet Padded cloth worn under a harness. Rondel armour Rondel Any circular plate. Rondels ...Following is a table that concisely identifies various pieces of medieval armor, mostly plate but some ... together. Developed in antiquity but became common in the 14th C. with the reintroduction of platearmour, later sometimes two pieces overlapping for top and bottom. Whether of one piece or two .... colspan 3 align center style background silver Arm Couter Cowter Plate that guards the elbow, eventually became articulated, may be covered by guard of vambrace see below . Spaulder Bands of plate that cover ... sometimes refer to parts of armour that together cover the lower and upper arms. Gauntlet gloves ... An additional layer of armour that goes over cowter, in which case it is proper to speak of the lower ... or cover the whole leg. Poleyn 13th C. Plate that covers the knee, appeared early in the transition from mail to plate, later articulated to connect with the cuisses and schynbald or greave. Often ... C. used till 15th C. Plate that covered only the shins, not the whole lower leg. Greave Covers the lower leg, front and back, made from a variety of materials, but later most often plate. Cuisse Plate ... areas not covered by plate. Lam armor Lam Band of steel plate, put together severally so ... joint. The following components of Japanese armour roughly match the position and function of certain ... more details
File Vladimir mongols.jpg thumb right Mongol horsemen Mongolian armour has a long history. Mongol armour drew its influence from Chinese armour Chinese and Middle East styles. Most Mongolian armour was of Scale armour scale and Lamellar armour lamellar variety. Most armour was made of hardened leather and iron , lanced together onto a fabric backing, sometimes silk. Mail armour was also sometimes used, but was rare, probably due to its weight and difficulty to repair. Mongol archers demanded the armour to be light enough so that when riding, it didn t interfere with their mobility Citation needed date August 2007 . It is also possible that the Mongol armour lacked mail and was generally lighter than its counterparts to the East and West because the nomadic habits of the Mongols were not conducive to the labour intensive practices and permanent facilities necessary for making mail or large plates. Sometimes arm protection was removed so that a rider could draw their bow. The helmet was made of mostly iron, but leather and other materials were also used. Lamellar armour was also used by the countries that were affected by the invasion of the Mongols world wide, including the conquest of China and the middle east. This is especially shown by Tamerlane , a debatably Mongol warlord of the 15th century that used lamellar armour consistently with his cavalry, and garbed himself and his men in Mongolian armour during war. Genghis Khan was once said to have issued all his horsemen with silk vests, as an arrow hitting silk does not break it but ends up embedded in the flesh wrapped in silk ... of the other side. These silk vests functioned much like the padded armour used by European and Byzantine ... http rubens.anu.edu.au raid1 cdroms webready england leeds museums royal armories arms and armour mongol Pictures of Mongolian armour See also Lamellar armour Laminar armour DEFAULTSORT Mongolian Armour Category Mongolian culture Armour Category Personal armour Category Military history of Mongolia ... more details
s and also including Korean horse armour and other kinds of early anti ballistic armour before the 20th century. Introduction File Armour of Korea.jpg thumb left Korean armour Korean armour were generally scale armour s consisting of vest, pauldron s, skirting with groin and or underarm protections ... protected against arrows for infantry. Korean armour tended to be of one piece, somewhat similar in appearance to costume of that time. In the fog of battle it was essential that Korean armour be distinguished quickly from the multi piece Chinese armour and the leather and metal studded Mongolian armour . Korean armour was designed to allow fast kicks, ground fighting, and upward strikes while Chinese armour was designed for downward strikes, and more positionary warfare This is merely a generalization ... and passes inland which were the historic battlegrounds. The armour responded to both these needs. Goguryeo Armour Goguryeo armour was a type of lamellar armour , made of little steel plates woven together ... til the late 19th century. Ballistic attacks required different materials. Joseon dynasty armour Image Korean armour 2505.jpg thumb Armour exposed at the Danghangpo Battle 1592 Danghangpo Battle memorial site. Armour from the Joseon dynasty consisted of a heavy canvas coat with iron plates on the inside ... that the durumagi had additional scale armour . See also Korean sword Korean knife Korean martial arts ... Armour http img71.exs.cx img71 2251 armor.jpg Armor from Goryeo Dynasty http img71.exs.cx img71 3137 kaya.jpg Iron Armour about korean plated mail lang. korean http blog.joinsmsn.com k0312k 5541593 http blog.joinsmsn.com k0312k 5456034 1347 1391 Category Personal armour ... more details
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