Armour consists of tanks and other military vehicles used in battle. the biggest movement of heavy British armour since the Second World War
Armour is a hard, usually metal, covering that protects a vehicle against attack. a formidable warhead that can penetrate the armour of most tanks
The defense of the knight against the weapons of his opponents, consisting of his complete harness Often this was used only to denote the "hard" bits of the harness, the hardened leather or plate defenses, rather than the softer arming garments, though sometimes layered cloth was also used as the sole defense, as in a jupon I use the English spelling with the "-our" rather than the Americanized version to denote the difference between modern armored combat vehicles (e g tanks) and armour that is meant for the individual medieval soldier
Extra cable protection to improve resistance to crushing, cutting and shearing forces The usual form is a braided steel outer jacket but tough plastic strengtheners is also used in many modern cable designs
A form of body protection that consists of a hard material that is worn around the vital areas of the body
A passive and defensive covering of the body which provides Damage Reduction with the value of n/- where n is the d20 System armour class value In general, Armour does not provide any bonus to a character's AC There are some exceptional types of armour which provide a passive deflection bonus to AC
knight in shining armour: see knight see also body armour. or body armour Protective clothing that can shield the wearer from weapons and projectiles. By extension, armour is also protective covering for animals, vehicles, and so on. Prehistoric warriors used leather hides and helmets. Chinese warriors used rhinoceros skin in the 11th century BC, and Greek infantry wore thick, multilayered metal-and-linen cuirasses (armour covering the body from neck to waist) in the 5th century BC. Shirts of chain mail were worn throughout the Roman Empire, and mail was the chief armour of western Europe until the 14th century. Ancient Greeks and Romans used armour made of rigid metal plates, which reappeared in Europe around the 13th century. Plate armour dominated European design until the 17th century, when firearms began to make it obsolete. It began to disappear in the 18th century, but the helmet reappeared in World War I and became standard equipment. Modern body armour (the bulletproof vest) covers the chest and sometimes the groin; it is a flexible garment reinforced with steel plates, fibreglass, boron carbide, or multiple layers of synthetic fabric such as Kevlar