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armour plate

British

noun

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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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

I expect them to be able to zip right through many inches of armour plate, since they will have a velocity of over four miles a second.

From The Black Star Passes by Campbell, John Wood

His views upon Truth were unbending as armour plate.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Copplestone, Bennet

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