Armour

Basic Information

Armour is material used as protection - whether worn on the body or attached to a vehicle - and in modern usage, "armour" can also mean vehicles protected by armour, or even military units equipped with armoured vehicles.

The design and construction of armour varies from age to age, from simple furs and skins protecting a stone-age tribesman, through medieval mail and plate armour and the ballistic vests of modern warriors to the power armour prevalent in science fiction.

For most purposes, armour can be taken to include shields.

A maker and maintainer of armour is normally called an armourer or armoursmith.

Personal Armour:

Pre-Modern:

• Hide Armour
• Wooden Armour
• Leather Armour
• Padded Armour
• Linothorax- rigid cloth armour
• Ring Mail
• Chainmail
• Scale Mail
• Banded Mail
• Splint Mail
• Laced Mail
• Lamellar armour
• Brigandine
• Coat of Plates
• Plated Mail
• Plate Mail
• Plate Armour
• Munition Plate
• Shield
• Helm

Modern:

• Buff coat
• Ballistic Vest
• Ballistic Insert
• Riot Armour
• Ballistic Helmet
• Riot Helmet
• Stab vest

Sci-Fi:

• Power Armour

Fantasy and Legend (including specific, named items):

• Panoply of Achillies
• The Aegis

Transport Armour:

• Barding
• Wheeled Shield
• Armoured Car
• Tank

Sources

Bibliography

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