armour plate

British  

noun

1. a tough heavy steel, usually containing chromium, nickel, and molybdenum and often hardened on the surface, used for protecting warships, tanks, etc

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armour plate

Both Héctor and Julio were wearing body armour, 14kg of Kevlar and armour plate.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

“I was lucky to be safe and capture the visual of one of the rockets hitting the armour plate overhead,” he tweeted Tuesday.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021

Big black paisleys pieced together like a children's jumbo jigsaw into a faux armour plate?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2014

And now we see the shield of yore An arsenal of armour plate; With crew a thousand men or more; And guns a hundred tons in weight.

From The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia by Taylor, George A. (George Augustine)

When a man has got that helmet on, and some sharp temptation is hurled at him, it will fall away from him like a paper pellet thrown against the armour plate of a mighty dreadnought.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry