Plastic armour
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plastic-armour-254-7810609
title:
Plastic armour
text:
Plastic armour was a type of vehicle armour originally developed for merchant ships by Edward Terrell of the British Admiralty in 1940. It consisted of small, evenly sized aggregate in a matrix of bitumen, similar to asphalt concrete. It was typically applied as a casting in situ in a layer about 2 in (51 mm) thick on to existing ship structures made from 1⁄4 in-thick (6.4 mm) mild steel or formed in equally thick sections on a 1⁄2 in-thick (13 mm) steel plate for mounting as gun shields and the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
British World War II stone aggregate ship armour
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_armour
date created:
date modified:
2023-09-22T15:58:05Z
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