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  2. HUD (video games) - Wikipedia

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    This feature returned with the introduction of the Nintendo Wii U, which uses the Wii U GamePad for some games as a HUD including Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Multi-screen gaming systems, particularly the Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS handheld systems, can also assign HUD information to one screen while showing gameplay in another.

  3. Lamellar armour - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Terracotta Army of the Qin dynasty is portrayed as wearing six (6) or seven (7) different categories of lamellar armor corresponding to rank and military division. [7] Many different types of lamellar armor have also been uncovered through excavations of Han dynasty archeological sites.

  4. Helmet-mounted display - Wikipedia

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    The Integrated Helmet and Display Sight System (IHADSS) 30 mm M230 chain gun turret on a Boeing AH-64 Apache being aimed with a helmet-mounted sight A helmet-mounted display (HMD) is a headworn device that uses displays and optics to project imagery and/or symbology to the eyes.

  5. List of body armor performance standards - Wikipedia

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    The VPAM scale as of 2009 runs from 1 to 14, with 1-5 being soft armor, and 6-14 being hard armor. [1] Tested armor must withstand three hits, spaced 120 mm (4.7 inches) apart, of the designated test threat with no more than 25 mm (0.98 inches) of back-face deformation in order to pass.

  6. Chinese armour - Wikipedia

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    Qin soldiers sometimes threw off their armour in a kind of berserk rage and engaged in fanatical charges. [16] Qin armour usually used rectangular lamellae with dimensions of 7.5 cm x 8.5 cm and 10.5 cm x 7.8 cm. Dimensions of lamellae used for charioteer armour varies between the upper body, lower body, and arms.

  7. Armour in the 18th century - Wikipedia

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    [16] A unique Polish development is a form of scale armour, the karacena, that developed in the last quarter of the 17th century and remained is use until the middle of the 18th century. Being a product of Polish Sarmatism, it was inspired by ancient Sarmatian, Scythian, Dacian and late ancient Roman armour.

  8. Gambeson - Wikipedia

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    This variant is usually referred to as "padded jack" and made of several (some say around 18, [8] some even 30 [9]) layers of cotton, linen or wool. These jacks were known to stop even heavy arrows, [ 9 ] and their design of multiple layers bears a striking resemblance to modern-day body armour , which used at first silk , then ballistic nylon ...

  9. Greenwich armour - Wikipedia

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    Armour of George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland (1558–1605), 1586. Greenwich armour is the plate armour in a distinctively English style produced by the Royal Almain Armoury founded by Henry VIII in 1511 in Greenwich near London, which continued until the English Civil War.