armor plates

Tank's steel skin

Armor plates are thick sheets of metal or composite material designed to protect vehicles, ships, or structures from projectiles and explosions.

Military tanks, warships, and armored personnel carriers use armor plates as defensive barriers.

The term also applies to protective panels in body armor: The vest's ceramic armor plates can stop rifle rounds.

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protection level

armor platesvulnerability

Openness to harm

soft underbelly · nakedness · weak points · soft targets · defenselessness

material composition

armor platesleather

Tanned animal skin

cloth · silk · gauze · padding · tissue

military function

armor platesprojectiles

Objects forcefully launched

blades · weapons · warheads · munitions

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G