In East Asia many types of armour were commonly used at different times by various cultures including, scale armour, lamellar armour, laminar armour, plated mail, mail, plate armour and brigandine.

File: Medieval horse armour. jpg | Medieval horse armour on display at Museum of Islamic Art, Doha in Qatar.

No actual body-armour, except such as was ceremonial and buried with the dead, like the gold breastplates in the circle-graves at Mycenae or the full length body armour from Dendra.

If it was instead hilly, wooded, marshy, or urban, armour would be vulnerable to infantry in close-quarters combat and unable to break out at full speed.

When the German motorized forces were met with a counterattack at Arras, British tanks with heavy armour ( Matilda I & IIs ) created a brief panic in the German High Command.

Then, following the battle, the Athenian army marched the 40 ( 25 miles ) or so kilometers back to Athens at a very high pace ( considering the quantity of armour, and the fatigue after the battle ), in order to head off the Persian force sailing around Cape Sounion.

) Thus, when Odo returned, he was able to launch a near complete surprise attack on the besieging force, scattering it at the first attack, and slaughtering units caught resting or that fled without weapons or armour.

The riveted mail armour worn by the opposing Sudanese Madhists did not have the same problem but also proved to be relatively useless against the firearms of British forces at the battle of Omdurman.

Kusari was used in samurai armour at least from the time of the Mongol invasion ( 1270s ) but particularly from the Nambokucho period ( 1336 – 1392 ).

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

The modern French Army retains three Dragoons regiments from the 32 it possessed at the beginning of World War I: the 2nd, which is a nuclear, bacteriologic and chemical protection regiment, the 4th, an armour regiment equipped with Leclerc tanks, and the 13th, which is a special-ops parachute regiment.

This was probably due to the custom of fighting in plate armour, where cutting attacks were ineffective and focus was laid instead on thrusts with narrow blades aimed at armour plate intersections ( or the eye slits of the helmet visor ).

It was thought in the late eighties that the protection level of the Future Soviet Tank ( FST ) could exceed 700 mm of rolled homogeneous armour equivalence at its maximum thickness, which was effectively immune against the contemporary M-829 armour piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot.

Around 105, however, there appears to have been a serious setback at the hands of the tribes of the Picts of Alba: several Roman forts were destroyed by fire, with human remains and damaged armour at Trimontium ( at modern Newstead, in SE Scotland ) indicating hostilities at least at that site.

The grammarian Athenaeus quoted some verses about perfumed ointments to prove just how unwarlike Alcaeus could be and he quoted his description of the armour adorning the walls of his house as proof that he could be unusually warlike for a lyric poet.

Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

Other multi-axled wheeled military vehicles can be quite large, and actually be superior to some smaller tracked vehicles in terms of armour and armament.

English history of the battle disputes this, as some claim that the narrow bodkin point arrows they used have been proven capable of penetrating most plate armour of that time period.

IFVs also often have improved armour and some have firing ports ( allowing the infantry to fire personal weapons while mounted ).

the plates of lorica segmentata armour were soft iron inside and ( some at least ) were mild steel on the outside.

It is true that some specialist units in the auxilia, such as Syrian archers and Numidian cavalry wore light armour ( or none ).

Higher-quality armour of steel would have given considerably greater protection, which accords well with the experience of Oxford's men against the elite French vanguard at Poitiers in 1356, and des Ursin's statement that the French knights of the first ranks at Agincourt, which included some of the most important ( and thus best-equipped ) nobles, remained comparatively unhurt by the English arrows.

The Welsh & English longbowman used a single-piece longbow ( but some bows later developed a composite design ) to deliver arrows that could penetrate contemporary plate armour and mail.

Our knowledge about arms and armour of the Viking age is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representation, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and Norse laws recorded in the 13th century.

Trace transuranics ( another indicator of the use of reprocessed material ) have been reported to be present in some US tank armour.

In the portraits, some of the nobles are shown in full armour in their heraldic colors and devices ( therefore with their faces hidden ), often shown as taking part in a joust, or sometimes in single combat with sword and shield, and sometimes in actual battle.

This annelid affinity came as some surprise, as it is the only instance of this group developing calcitic armour.

Historically, some arrows used for the proofing of armour used copper vanes.

However, there is no sound evidence that Edward ever wore black armour, although Harvey ( without citing a source ) refers to " some rather shadowy evidence that he was described in French as clad at the battle of Crecy " en armure noire en fer bruni "-in black armour of burnished steel ".

Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour that reacts in some way to the impact of a weapon to reduce the damage done to the vehicle being protected.

This armour is made up of two or more conductive plates separated by some space or by an insulating material, creating a high-power capacitor.

However, local Indians had evidently looted the hiding place, and White found " about the place many of my things spoyled and broken, and my books torne from the covers, the frames of some of my pictures and mappes rotten and spoyled with rayne, and my armour almost eaten through with rust "

In order to deal with these problems, the Soviets invested heavily in reactive armour, which allowed them some ability to control quality, even after production.

He was planning to kill some more Thracians and stealing the chariot of the king with his armour when Athena advised him to back off for some other god may warn the Trojans.

They were slow ( men could run, and frequently walk, faster ); vulnerable ( to artillery ) due to their size, clumsiness and inability to carry armour against anything but rifle and machine gun ammunition ; extremely uncomfortable ( conditions inside them often incapacitating crews with engine fumes and heat, and driving some mad with noise ); and often despicably unreliable ( frequently failing to make it to their targets due to engine or track failures ).

Whilst heavier armour provides better protection, it makes vehicles less mobile ( for a given engine power ), limits its air-transportability, increases cost, uses more fuel and may limit the places it can go-for example, many bridges may be unable to support the weight of a main battle tank.

They wore clothes reminiscent of Roman armour, " against the space debris that kept falling onto the planet lost from other places, like television sets and bits of an Iron Chicken ", and they spoke in whistles.

Ajax owned the biggest armour and the tallest shield which covered most of his body leaving only two places vulnerable ; his neck and armpits.

On the armour, it could be found on the kabuto ( helmet ), on the do ( cuirass ), flags, and various other places.

Due to the lack of a turret and the armour being concetrated at the front, the ideal combat situation for Jagdpanzer units was in the planned ambush, and the skill of the commander of such units lay in correctly choosing and preparing such places long before needed.

The T-34 was a development of this line of tanks as well, though their armament, armour, and all-round capability places them firmly in the medium tank category.

Some finds indicate partial armour, where a leather shirt or similar garment have sewn-on scales in places, particularly around the neck and upper chest.

They were armed with batons and OC Foam ( pepper spray-in a less aerosol form to avoid contamination in confined places ), body armour and carried portable radios.