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Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and roughly by date.
Viking landing at Dublin, 841, by James Ward (1851-1924). Knowledge about military technology of the Viking Age (late 8th to mid-11th century Europe) is based on relatively sparse archaeological finds, pictorial representations, and to some extent on the accounts in the Norse sagas and laws recorded in the 12th–14th centuries.
A breastplate or chestplate is a device worn over the torso to protect it from injury, as an item of religious significance, or as an item of status. European
Bronze muscle cuirass, Italy, c. 350–300 BC. Partial plate armour, made out of bronze, which protected the chest and the lower limbs, was used by the ancient Greeks, as early as the late Bronze Age.
Following the adoption of the Wehrmacht on the supply of 9mm cartridges, the cartridge code R.08 mE (German: mit Eisenkern), with a bullet with mild steel (iron) core, required the thickness to be increased to 2.6 mm (0.10 in) for the chest plate (2.5 to 2.7 mm (0.098 to 0.106 in)). This redesign received the name SN-46.
JoJo Siwa, seen here performing at LA Pride in the Park in June, drew mixed reactions by posing in a crystal men's chest piece and matching jockstrap on a magazine cover.
Cuirass worn by a Carabinier-à-Cheval. A cuirass (/ k w ɪ ˈ r æ s, k j ʊəˈr æ s / kwirr-ASS, kure-ASS; [1] French: cuirasse; Latin: coriaceus) is a piece of armour that covers the torso, formed of one or more pieces of metal or other rigid material.
A knight in full kasten-brust armour without gauntlets (altar of Saint Leonard churge in Basele by Conrad Witz,1435) Kasten-brust armour (German: Kastenbrust — "box-shaped breast") — is a German form of plate armour from the first half of 15th century.