armour

newby.204

hey lads im writing a thesis on armour and its various forms, im loolking for good sites for information about armour??

Hard Larry

Armour as in Tanks?

or Armour as in Bulletproof vests?

Either way I think Wiki is your friend in this case.

newby.204

all and any type of armour.

diverdriver

all and any type of armour.

That would be a hell of a thesis, how far back are you going to go? Rome, Greece?

newby.204

back to leather

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

I suggest you take a look at the japanese samurai, which I think was influenced by the Chinese, but don't quote me on that.

You will get your 25,000 words out of that title anyway.

I wouldn't quote wiki, it is not reputable. Not a source that lecturers normally take.


A list of armors that I know of are as follows:

Cloth (silk)
Wood
Leather
Ring-Armor
Scale Armor
Brigandine AKA Studded leather
Coat of Plates
Splinted Armor
Lamellar Armor
Mail
Plate
Kevlar
Ceramic

For vehicle armour I know that the angle of the plate is very important. Do some research into that, also the thickness, the material and the grade of it. There's sooo much involved in armor, you have a lot of reading ahead of you, I mean a LOT.

Take a look at some of the following sites. Might help you a bit. A good bit of rubbish in it but you might get a lot of info from it too

Body Armor

More Armor

Bit of history

Chain mail

Armour Research Society

Arador.com

Tribunius

Talk about a broad topic. You should probably narrow it down to personal armour or vehicular armour. If you try and cover everything you risk having a scattered thesis. You could write several thesis's on just one of these area's.

newby.204

thanks for the information lads!!! went with vehicle and modern personal, ie ballistic vets

IRISH RAIL

try Israel weapons Industries (iwi)
used to be called Israel military industries till it got privateised
some good detail there about both personal and veichle armour
also
o gara hess and eindhardt
they make the armourd cars for us dignataries i doubt they will spill thier secrets but you might find something.
I know a lot abut the us M1A1 modular syatem has come out in recent years but never looked into it might be something to search up.

OS119

i think you're going to hit a dead end when you want to learn the specifics of modern vehicle armour - you should be ok in terms of principles - but the details of the alloy types, Chobham type systems etc... just are not available.

and there is a very big difference interms of effectiveness, cost, weight etc between 4 inches of steel and whatever the hell is slapped on a Challenger II, M1A2 TUSK or Leopard 2 chassis - and in my view you're going to have to know and understand those details in order to produce a thesis that says anything more that "a modern, western tank can take both Main Armament and ATGW/RPG damage that would have caused catastrophic damage on a tank of just one generation ago"

sorry.

Leadership

There was an article a few weeks ago that the new generation of armour will be full of holes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7811567.stm

Fratton Fred

there was a programme on a while back looking at medieval armour and the development of the arrow head.

It was quite inteesting and showed how there was effectively an arms race between various european armies regarding armour piercing arrrowheads and developing armour that could combat it. The arrow won and this sparked the end of conventional plate armour. I think it was a time team show or something like that.

Screaming Monkey

Interesting program last night on BBC4, about Fidelis Cloer (armoured vehicle salesman), apart from his story it included some technical stuff about the vehicles he sells, including the testing they do and one scene where he sits in the vehicle while a prospecting client shoots at it with an H&K MP5

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/storyville/index.shtml

SM