Armour Type

Comparisons of these Armour Types

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Armour Type	Summary
Barbette	The barbette extended below the turret and protected vunerable powder handling facilities.
Belt	Belt armour protected against short and medium range gunfire, where the trajectory was still fairly flat.
Bows
Bulkhead	Across the ship ahead and behind the main superstructure to connect the deck and belt armours into a box.
Casemates	An obsolete method for mounting a gun in a part cylinder set into the superstructure which rotated through about 180 degrees.
Citadel
Conning Tower	The command area of as ship. Often a cylinder.
Deck	Deck armour protected against bombs and plunging gun fire at the ends of its range.
Flight Deck	An armoured flight deck gave good protection against dive bombers. First used by the British.
Hanger Sides	Additional protection for the vunerable aircraft hanger.
Lower Deck	Further protection against bombs and plunging fire.
Machinery Spaces	The propulsion machinery. A stopped ship was very vunerable. Machinery spaces were often large compartments and dangerous if flooded.
Magazine Box	The propellant powder magazines were the most dangerous areas.
Magazine Crown	Just the top of the magazines.
Magazine Side	Just the magazine sides.
Secondary Turrets
Torpedo Bulkhead	Armour inside of the main belt to contain the force of an underwater torpedo explosion.
Turret	Just the front if sides and roof also specified
Turret Roof
Turret Side
Upper Deck	Often an additional deck was lightly armoured to decap and disrupt the fusing or penetrating capability of a projectile.

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