Amour plated protection through the ages: five innovations from The Engineer archive

The prospect of imminent annihilation is a great motivator and the correlation between warfare and technological advance is well known and documented.
The development of armour is no different in this respect and The Engineer has taken a keen interest in the materials and processes used to afford protection to the weapons of war, be they horses, boats, tanks or trains.
Here, we look back at five developments designed to give armoured protection to combatants on land and at sea.
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