NEW TYPE OF ARMOUR PLATE
INCREASED RESISTANCE TO PROJECTILES RESULT OF BRITISH RESEARCH London, November 26. The “Daily Telegraph’s” military correspondent says that in the eternal duel between armour and projectile recent British research has resulted In a new type of armour plate. This is so much harder in proportion to its weight that it will double the resistance to projectiles and thus give armoured protection a lead which the projectile will find hard to overtake. The new armour plate will have a big influence on warship design and the mechanisation of armies. Hitherto armour 14 millimetres thick has been required to keep out the ordinary armour-piercing bullet, but the new specially-hardened armour plate will permit of fast, light-armoured tanks which will dodge or outflank opposing anti-tank guns and also greatly save the cost of construction.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 11
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136NEW TYPE OF ARMOUR PLATE Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 11
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