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	Penetration-resistant hinge and flexible armor incorporating same - Patent 5771489
		Flexible body armor as claimed in claim 8 wherein the overlapping edges of said at least two adjacent armor plates include an inner surface and an outer surface and wherein at least one of said inner and outer surfaces of said overlapping edges is beveled.
		Flexible body armor as claimed in claim 11 which comprises at least five armor plates and wherein each of said fifth and succeeding armor plates is joined to one of said first four armor plates by a penetration-resistant hinge.
		Flexible body armor as claimed in claim 12 wherein at least two of said fifth and succeeding armor plates are joined to adjacent of said first four armor plates and which further comprises at least one sliding overlap between said adjacent two of said fifth and succeeding armor plates.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /5771489.html (5532 words)

	Armor (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Armor is a military science fiction novel by John Steakley.
		Armor is the story of humanity's war against an alien race whose foot soldiers are roughly man-sized insects.
		Armored infantry are positioned above the planet surface in starships, and dropped individually to the planet surface as a swarm of independent fighting units.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armor_(novel) (2109 words)

	Composite floor armor for military tanks and the like - Patent 4404889
		The composite armor of claim 1 wherein said media layers includes at least one layer of ballistic-resistant fabric of a type having a woven roving weave impregnated with a reinforcing matrix of microspheres and a strengthening elastomer, said fabric being of the type known in the trade as KEVLAR nylon.
		The armor assembly of claim 15, wherein said ballistic-resistant fabric is of a type having a woven roving weave impregnated with microspheres and a strengthening elastomer, said fabric being of a general type such as known in the trade as KEVLAR nylon.
		Test data shows that the structural response of the subject novel composite armor is superior to that of a monolithic steel armor of equivalent areal density, and furthermore, the shock isolation thereof is found to be significantly greater than that of the equivalent areal density steel armor.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4404889.html (4070 words)

	Table of Contents and Excerpt, Jones, Native North American Armor, Shields, and Fortifications
		Their armor was constructed of wood and bone (hard armor), leather (soft armor), and combinations of hard and soft materials.
		In the Indian armoring repertoire, gorgets (armor for the throat) occurred in a variety of forms; helmets, both hard and soft, were widespread.
		Lighter armor continued to be designed specifically for the battlefield function of the soldier, and the light armor of the cavalry was modified for archers or cannoneers.
	www.utexas.edu /utpress/excerpts/exjonnat.html (3762 words)

	M939 / M35 Crew Protection Kit
		Several other novel armor technologies were investigated and considered, but the combination of schedule, availability, fabrication ease, multi-hit performance and cost ruled out their application.
		Armor plate was also mounted inside the floor of the cab as well as under the front wheel wells to reduce the threat of fragments from land explosives.
		The prototype design of the M939 armor kit required more than 300 drawings (to date) and consists of 260 individual components and it is estimated that the kit adds from between 1100 to 1500 pounds to the front wheels of the various M939 series vehicles.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/systems/ground/m939-cpk.htm (1382 words)

	Katarn-class commando armor - Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This armor was more expensive and provided better protection than standard clone armor, due to the special composition of its armor plates and the fact that due to the novel chemical properties of it, each armor plate produced its own shielding.
		Mark II Katarn armor, issued circa four months after the Battle of Geonosis, was reinforced against Verpine shatter guns and EMP weaponry, following recommendations made by Omega Squad after their tour on Qiilura.
		Mark III Katarn armor, issued circa ten months after the Battle of Geonosis, featured more enhancements, and was blaster resistant against ordnance up to light cannon rounds.
	starwars.wikia.com /wiki/Katarn-class_commando_armor (341 words)

	NDM Article - Truck Armor Kits Could Be Improved, Says Army Tester
		While the Army continues to apply steel armor to thousands of trucks, it also intends to seek new protective technologies that, if successful, could be adapted against future threats.
		Although the preponderance of the armor kits in Iraq are old-fashioned steel, some vehicles have ceramic composite armor.
		At Aberdeen, armored Humvees are tested to assess the impact of the weight on vehicle performance.
	www.nationaldefensemagazine.org /issues/2005/Feb/Truck_Armor.htm (807 words)

	ONE SCORE \| ONE CHICAGO 2005
		A tall, gaunt gentleman in his 50s, scarcely protected by his makeshift armor and carrying a rusty shield and broken lance, balanced precariously on a skeletal horse.
		And by having Don Quixote blindly imitate the same novels of chivalry that drove him mad, the author is also laughing at--even while acknowledging and putting to use--the power and attraction of literature.
		Not only novels of chivalry, but pieces of poems and short stories are often confused in Don Quixote's mind with historical reality.
	www.ravinia.org /OneScore/2005/english/content_greatnovel.html (769 words)

	Book Information: Armor :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee – the culmination of ten thousand years of armorers' craft.
		A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic-powered battle fortress – but he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters – the fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless, war minions.
		This is Felix's story – a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combar, and the story, too, of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
	www.iblist.com /book223.htm (199 words)

	Alibris: Armor
		A book that goes beyond the bestselling Iron John to provide real-life practical ideas for the emerging new man. By far the most comprehensive and practical book available on the topic, its promise is nothing less than the reclaiming of masculine soul.
		See the very first weapons ever made, the armor worn by medieval knights, the battledress of a Japanese samurai, the guns used by the soldiers, frontiersmen, and outlaws of the Wild West.
		In Forced Justice, David J. Armor explores the benefits and drawbacks of voluntary and involuntary desegregation plans, especially those in communities with "magnet" schools.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Armor (877 words)

	Star Wars Consortium
		Novel Garaint - Novel is a zabrak mercenary who often works for the Empire.
		Novel was the quarry that the servants of Kasyapa were seeking in Bounty Hunting.
		He encountered the minions of Kasyapa on Coruscant when they were bounty hunting for Novel Gariant and again when the servants of Kasyapa were exacting revenge against Korrda and Grondo.
	gozips.uakron.edu /~jla36/swcfswnpcs.htm (728 words)

	News
		MCMC TM armor is a cross-section of layers that transition from a hard ceramic face shield to a high strength ductile metal backplane in a n integrated a rmor system - processed in an integrated process line.
		The MCMC armor proprietary process is a perform that is infiltrated and thermally processed to produce a gradient –from ceramic to metal.
		Current transparent armor systems use hybrid laminated structures of acrylic, polycarbonate and glass that use acrylic as the “face sheet” which that does not provide an optimal degree of strength and hardness.
	www.tritonsys.com /news/Armor.htm (634 words)

	The Official Unofficial John Steakley Site
		While most of the action sequences are medical in nature (the author was part of a trauma team in military and civilian hospitals) the real strength lies in her ability to tell a convoluted tale that unwinds in a quick, even pace and describe a universe with huge amounts of possibility.
		Some of the characters' attempts to deal with the futility of their situations are reminiscent of the Puppy in the Well story, if anyone needs a parallel with Armor, although I know some people find that part of the novel to be one of the more troubling.
		The main story involves a group of 'pilgrims' (a la Canterbury Tales) who must travel to the planet Hyperion at the edge of human occupied space to confront The Shrike, a razor-blade-and-spike covered chrome killing machine that is supposed to be a messenger of the gods/avatar of evil/insert creepy description here.
	johnsteakley.com /order.html (1346 words)

	Science Fiction Game Reviews
		In the Heinlein novel, the MI was all about their powered armor.
		In the movie, the armor was ditched so the actors' faces could been seen and the special-effects hassles avoided.
		Powered armor is available, even suits that allow the novel's trademark bouncing, but the characters must progress through several missions before the threat level becomes high enough that all troopers will be provided armor.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue188/games.html (632 words)

	Vehicle Armor, APC, Machine Gun, Perforated, Ceramic, Composite, RANK Enterprises
		This armor offers an excellent combination of high weight efficiency, capability to stop both fragments and FMJ projectiles at high velocities and AP projectiles at somewhat lower velocities.
		Similar concepts are also used by us in body armor and aircraft armor designs, wth different materials augmenting each other and providing optimal armor performance.
		To be effective this armor has to be highly tuned to a specific projectile diameter, and even than it is effective only against 50% of the incoming projectiles.
	rankarmor.com /no_vehicle.html (544 words)

	Halo Graphic Novel - Halopedia - A Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Halo Graphic Novel was announced on March 17th, 2006 on Bungie.net, and became available by July 19, 2006.
		One of the untold tales from Halo is Sergeant Johnson's escape from the clutches of the Flood menace.
		In the Halo Graphic Novel, there is a section after the stories called "Gallery" which shows off a selection of visions of the Halo universe from Bungie, Marvel and Other Artists, created solely for this book.
	halo.wikia.com /wiki/Halo_Graphic_Novel (792 words)

	Armor (1984)
		The eponymous "armor" is a piece of equipment that renders its operator a veritable superman.
		Although it is not revealed until the last third of the novel, it is quite obvious from the very beginning that Felix has "issues," to put it in SoCal slang.
		It is not really important what these are, but the fact is that he seems to have volunteered for a war he gives not a hoot about, a war where the casualty rates are appalling, and that he is ready to fight with the cold detachment of one who really has nothing to live for.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/a/armor.html (1059 words)

	Amazon.ca: Iron Man The Armor Trap: Books: Greg Cox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Armor Trap is a novel that lends itself more to conspiracies and intricate plans than all-out brawls, which is precisely the kind of opposition you'd expect for a hero that wears a suit of invincible armor (otherwise, it would get way too easy to beat everyone).
		Unfortunately, he asks me to suspend my disbelief too far at the end of the novel (basically, the premise is so scientifically implausible that I can't help but laugh at it), but that's not a major problem.
		I would say that this novel introduces Iron Man well to new readers, and fans of the comic book will definitely enjoy what is an improvement on the comic.
	www.amazon.ca /Iron-Man-Armor-Trap-Greg/dp/1572970081 (1211 words)

	Essays - Gladiator Doilies: The Art of Fantasy Armor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		For a discussion of the creation of the graphic novel, go to Fancher's site.) Fancher's Morgaine is in her civvies, after shedding plate, cuirbouilli and mail for the evening, but I think you get the idea.
		That is to say, some Medieval armor is pretty fantastic, bordering on phantasmagoric, as is most Japanese armor of the Samurai era, but it was worn and used by warriors of its time.
		Ornamental armor is often quite lovely, and I confess that this UK Morgaine is "easy on the eyes," downright plummy unless you favor the Dachau Spa look of current models and stars.
	dancingbadger.com /poser/farmor.htm (3848 words)

	Starship Troopers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the future history in which the novel is set, Cox was never cleared of the charges; in reality, his conviction was overturned in 1952, seven years before the novel was published.
		John Steakley's novel Armor was, according to the author, born out of frustration with the small amount of actual combat in Starship Troopers and because he wanted this aspect developed further.
		Armor: A novel by John Steakley which was inspired by Starship Troopers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Starship_Troopers (7739 words)

	Space Armor by E.E. 'Doc' Smith from Triplanetary
		In the novel, "space armor" is often used interchangably with "suit of space" (space suit); it is also written with a hyphen as "space-armor." The author does distinguish an "emergency suit" from space armor.
		Through the aperture thus made Costigan could plainly see the pirate in the space-armor of the chief engineer - an armor which was proof against rifle fire and which could reflect and neutralize for some little time even the terrific beam Costigan was employing...
		The officer touched a trigger, there was a double report, ear-shattering in that narrowly confined space, and the pirate's body literally flew into mist as a half-kilogram shell tore through his armor and exploded.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/Content.asp?Bnum=1127 (243 words)

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		The Armor Challenge is aimed primarily at inventors and small organizations who do not have the resources to initiate full-scale armor development programs.
		The Armor Challenge is an opportunity for developers to obtain a rapid and impartial assessment of their existing armor designs with testing of submitted armor panels in a series of “shoot-outs” at a certified ballistics laboratory.
		Participants in the Armor Challenge will be selected by DARPA based on the criteria listed below, and selectees will be invited to send test samples of their novel armor designs for testing at an independent facility.
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/2-16088.asp (427 words)

	The Adrenaline Vault \| PC Preview \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Although the novel was basically about a fascist society that was locked in conflict with the ultimate communists, the societal commentary wasn't the aspect of the book that received the most attention.
		With the armor that Heinlein described, a single soldier would have the offensive and defensive capabilities of a modern day tank battalion.
		Fans, however, were disappointed that the powered armor was dropped from the film due to budget constraints.
	www.avault.com /previews/preview_temp.asp?game=stta (833 words)

	Amazon.com: Armor: Books: John Steakley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the home of the most implacable of humanity's enemies.
		A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic-powered battle fortress, but he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters.
		It follows to basic plotlines -- one is the story of a desperate soldier fighting an impossible war, the other from the point of view of an ex-pirate escaped from prison who joined up with the wrong crew.
	www.amazon.com /Armor-John-Steakley/dp/0886773687 (1443 words)

	The Devil's Armor by John Marco - Official sffworld.com review
		Of course being a fantasy novel, Marco sprinkles generous portions of magic, strange creatures and heavy interaction between the living and dead.
		Both novels illustrate the grandness of scale in the epic work, while still managing to focus in on each character, giving them a sense of uniqueness in the novel, and an individuality in a genre otherwise wrought with overstated clichés.
		However, what drives this novel are the characters, what brings them to the brink of self-destruction, the lengths they will go to redeem themselves and their lands.
	www.sffworld.com /brevoff/93.html (1490 words)

	The Fantasy Novelist's Exam
		We think anybody considering writing a fantasy novel should be required to take this exam first.
		Answering "yes" to any one question results in failure and means that the prospective novel should be abandoned at once.
		Is the countryside in your novel littered with tombs and gravesites filled with ancient magical loot that nobody thought to steal centuries before?
	rinkworks.com /fnovel (1207 words)

	Security&Terrorism: DARPA Seeks Novel, Lightweight Armor - The Post Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The novel armor designs are meant to offer a 50 percent reduction in weight compared with the current generation of rolled homogenous armor.
		Proposals selected by DARPA to produce samples of the armor will be expected to deliver three 18-inch square panels for each of the threats.
		New, lighter weight armor has become of particular interest in the last three years, as standard Humvees have had to be reinforced with armor to protect troops from roadside bombs and small-arms fire in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	www.postchronicle.com /news/security/article_2126684.shtml (563 words)

	The Official Unofficial John Steakley Site
		His first published story ("The Bluenose Limit", March, 1981 Amazing) was rejected by 12 editors before finding its home and such recognition that his first novel, Armor, was accepted upon completion by the Scott Meredith Literary AGency and is now in the process of being placed.
		He has been writing for the movies for the last nine years, has completed one novel, Armor, and is awaiting the publication of another, entitled Vampires.
		The author of Armor, he is currently working on a book for New American Library.
	johnsteakley.com /bio.html (437 words)

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