BRITISH RESEARCH
NEW ARMOUR PLATE
VALUE FOR TANKS
(Received 27th November, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, 26th November.
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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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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137BRITISH RESEARCH Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 129, 27 November 1929, Page 11
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