Armour
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Armour or armor is a covering used to protect an object, individual, or vehicle from physical injury or damage, especially direct contact weapons or projectiles during combat, or from a potentially da
Western Xia mail armour
Armour “harness”. German, about AD 1540-50. Metropolitan Museum of At
Portrait of a Gentleman in Armour with Two Pages by Paris Bordone
The Dendra panoply, Mycenaean Greek armour, c. 1400 BC
Heavy infantry
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Heavy infantry consisted of heavily armed and armoured infantrymen who were trained to mount frontal assaults and/or anchor the defensive center of a battle line. This differentiated them from light i
Heavy infantry hoplites of Ancient Greece in phalanx formation
Probable depiction of a Spartan army hoplite (Vix crater, c. 500 BC)
Re-enactors depicting Roman legionaries wearing the lorica segmentata, 1st–3rd century. Other equipment in view include the galea (helmet), pilum (spear) and scutum (shield)
Painting of a Landsknecht in Peleș Castle