NOUN
- specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire
How To Use armour plate In A Sentence
- For protection against mines the vehicle is fitted with a floor spall liner and 18 mm armour plate in the floor.
- Due to its high density, which is about twice that of lead, and other physical properties, depleted uranium is used in munitions designed to penetrate armour plate.
- One of these shells landed on B turret just between the two guns, ripping off the front armour plate and killing eight men at the front of the gunhouse. Graf Spee
- For protection against mines the vehicle is fitted with a floor spall liner and 18 mm armour plate in the floor.
- BA said all its 340 planes would get a full-length metal armour plate fitted, which will substantially reinforce cockpit door exteriors and prevent unauthorised access to the flight deck.
- The welded steel and aluminium alloy hull is fitted with spall liners and add-on titanium armour plate to protect against anti-tank weapons.
- The welded steel and aluminium alloy hull is fitted with spall liners and add-on titanium armour plate to protect against anti-tank weapons.
- There it met a shaped armour-piercing charge in the form of an anti-tank shell, the sort of thing that slices through armour plate to a depth of seven or eight times its own diameter. The Edge of Madness
- The serrated edge of his weapon cut deep into the metal, despite its apparent fragility, and split apart the armour plates that were fortifying the structure.
- Due to its high density, which is about twice that of lead, and other physical properties, depleted uranium is used in munitions designed to penetrate armour plate.