Chobham armour

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Chobham armour is the informal name of a composite armour developed in the 1960s at the Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment, a British tank research centre on Chobham Lane in Chertsey. The name has since become the common generic term for composite ceramic vehicle armour.

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Image: DoD photo by: EDDIE MCCROSSAN Date Shot: 1 Dec 1979 National Archive# NN33300514 30 Jun 2005, uploader was Signaleer at en.wikipedia.org, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.