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• n  specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire

• armor plate
• armour plate
• armor plating
• plate armour

News & Articles

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• The New Armor That Lets You Sense Surveillance Cameras
  We pass under surveillance cameras every day, appearing on perhaps hundreds of minutes of film. London-based artist James Bridle would like to remind us. Bridle has created a wearable device he calls the “surveillance spaulder.” Inspired by the original spaulder—a piece of medieval plate armor that protected “the wearer from unexpected and unseen blows from above”—the surveillance spaulder ...
  Dec. 13, 2013 - The Atlantic via Yahoo! Finance