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Copper Scale Armor, Kefar Monash Hoard. Israel Museum, Jerusalem. There has been conflicting ideas to the purpose of the 800 copper plates. Although they have been assumed to be scales of armor from an Egyptian army unit, as proposed by archaeologist Shmuel Yeivin, [3] recent reevaluations have confuted this claim.
A manica (Latin: manica, "sleeve"; [1] Greek: χεῖρες, kheires, "sleeves") was a type of iron or copper-alloy laminated arm guard with curved, overlapping metal segments or plates fastened to leather straps worn by ancient and late antique heavy cavalry, infantry, and gladiators.
Coat covered with gold-decorated scales of the pangolin. India, Rajasthan, early 19th century Dacian scale armour on Trajan's column. Scale armour is an early form of armour consisting of many individual small armour scales (plates) of various shapes attached to each other and to a backing of cloth or leather in overlapping rows. [1]
Bronze requires two ores or bars of tin and copper. The metal adamantine , found deep below, is extremely light but very strong, making it excellent for sharp weapons and armor. Raw adamantine can be extracted into strands and can further be either woven in cloth or smelted into wafers.
Armored Warriors, known in Japan as Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment [a], is a 1994 beat 'em up video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades.. After being included with the Retro-Bit Super Retro-Cade dedicated console, [1] the game would later be released digitally as part of the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle [2] and Capcom Arcade Stadium.
Armor-piercing bullets typically contain a hardened steel, tungsten, or tungsten carbide penetrator encased within a copper or cupronickel jacket, similar to the jacket which would surround lead in a conventional projectile. The penetrator is a pointed mass of high-density material designed to retain its shape and carry the maximum possible ...
Chalcopyrite (/ ˌ k æ l k ə ˈ p aɪ ˌ r aɪ t,-k oʊ-/ [7] [8] KAL-kə-PY-ryte, -koh-) is a copper iron sulfide mineral and the most abundant copper ore mineral. It has the chemical formula CuFeS 2 and crystallizes in the tetragonal system.
The Ammunition Identification Code (AIC) was a sub-set of the Standard Nomenclature List (SNL). The SNL was an inventory system used from 1928 to 1958 to catalog all the items the Army's Ordnance Corps issued.