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Armour
Armour, also spelled armor, is protective covering worn on the body to reduce injury from weapons, used from ancient Egypt around 1500 B.C. to modern body armor.
Armour and Company
Armour and Company (Armour & Co.) was a Chicago meatpacking firm founded by the Armour brothers in 1867; led by Philip Danforth Armour from 1875, it pioneered by-products processing and refrigerated distribution, became one of the Big Five packers, and lost family control in the early 1920s.
Armour of God (film)
Armour of God (龍兄虎弟) is a 1986 Hong Kong action comedy directed by and starring Jackie Chan as Asian Hawk, known for the skull-fracture stunt accident and its 1991 sequel Operation Condor.
Armour of God II: Operation Condor (飞鹰计划)
Armour of God II: Operation Condor (飞鹰计划) is Jackie Chan's 1991 Hong Kong action-comedy, second Asian Hawk film, hunting Nazi gold in the Sahara; Golden Harvest's costliest production, later 4K-restored.
Armour of the Kelly gang
Armour of the Kelly gang: four improvised bulletproof suits made in 1879 from plough mouldboards by Ned and Dan Kelly, Joe Byrne, and Steve Hart, worn once at the 1880 Glenrowan siege; analysis shows amateur bush-forge work.
Armour-piercing discarding sabot
The armor-piercing discarding sabot (APDS) round is a spin-stabilized kinetic-energy anti-armor projectile in which a sabot carrier falls away at the muzzle, leaving a smaller, faster penetrator.
Armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot
The armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS), also called FSAPDS, is tank ammunition in which a sabot falls away and fins stabilize a long dense penetrator.
Armoured fighting vehicle
An armored fighting vehicle (AFV) is an armored, armed military vehicle combining firepower, protection, and mobility; the category includes tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, and self-propelled artillery.
Armoured personnel carrier
An armored personnel carrier, or APC, is an armored combat vehicle that carries an infantry squad under armor, armed with a weapon under 20 millimeters caliber.
Armoured recovery vehicle
An armored recovery vehicle (ARV) is a heavily armored support vehicle, usually built on a tank chassis, that recovers disabled or battle-damaged vehicles and performs repairs near the battlefield.
Armoured train
An armored train, known in German as a Panzerzug, is an armored, gun-armed railway train, first built in 1848 and used most heavily in the Russian Civil War.
Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge
An Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB) is a military engineering vehicle on a tank chassis that launches a folding bridge so combat vehicles can cross battlefield gaps.
Armoured warfare
Armoured warfare: the combined-arms use of tanks and armored vehicles, from Flers-Courcelette 1916 and Kursk to the drone-era Ukraine war, where FPV drones and ATGMs are reshaping tank doctrine.
Armouries in Canada
Armouries in Canada are military drill-hall buildings housing militia and Army Reserve units. Over 100 were built 1896-1918 under Borden and Hughes, with fortress-style architecture, standard plans, and heritage-protected examples in Hamilton, Halifax, Winnipeg, and Sherbrooke.
Armpit fetishism
Armpit fetishism, or maschalagnia, is sexual interest in the axilla, its hair, sweat, and odor. A paraphilia under DSM-5, it is a fetishistic disorder only with six months of recurrent arousal plus distress, impairment, or harm.
Arms (video game)
Arms (ARMS) is Nintendo's 2017 Switch fighting game with extendable, curving arms, Joy-Con motion controls, 10 launch fighters grown to 15, 2.72 million sales, Metascore 77, and a 2025 Switch 2 update.
Arms and the Man
Arms and the Man, Shaw's 1894 three-act anti-romantic comedy set in the Serbo-Bulgarian War, premiered at London's Avenue Theatre, became his first commercial success, and inspired Oscar Straus's operetta The Chocolate Soldier.
Arms control
Arms control: the negotiation, verification, and implementation of treaties limiting or eliminating weapons, from the 1963 Hotline Agreement and 1968 NPT to START cuts; New START's February 2026 expiration ended binding US-Russia nuclear limits.
Arms embargo on Yugoslavia (1991)
UN Security Council Resolution 713 arms embargo on Yugoslavia, 25 September 1991, covering all former Yugoslav territories; monitored by the 724 committee, contested in the US, phased out by Resolution 1021 after Dayton, fully terminated 18 June 1996.
Arms Export Control Act
The Arms Export Control Act is the United States federal law authorizing and governing sales of defense articles and services abroad, first enacted in 1968.
Arms industry
The arms industry, also known as the weapons or defense industry, comprises companies producing weapons and military equipment, with 2024 arms revenues of $679 billion.
Arms race
Arms race: an intense armaments competition between rival states, qualitative or quantitative. Covers Richardson models, the security dilemma, the Cold War nuclear race, and today's AI and nuclear competitions.
Arms Trade Treaty
The Arms Trade Treaty, also known as the UN Small Arms Treaty, is a UN agreement regulating cross-border trade in conventional weapons, in force since 2014.
Arms trafficking
Arms trafficking, also called illicit firearms trafficking, is the unauthorized cross-border movement of firearms, parts and ammunition under the UN Firearms Protocol and Arms Trade Treaty, driven mainly by diversion of legally produced weapons into illicit markets.
Arms-to-Iraq affair
The Arms-to-Iraq affair was a British political scandal in which John Major's government relaxed export controls on defense goods sold to Iraq, then prosecuted exporters for it.
ARMS2
ARMS2 (age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2, formerly LOC387715, ARMD8) is a primate-specific gene at 10q26.13 encoding an 11-kDa secreted protein of unknown function; with neighboring HTRA1 it is a major genetic risk locus for age-related macular degeneration, chiefly via the A69S variant rs10490924.
Armsel Striker
The Armsel Striker, also known as the Protecta or Street Sweeper, is a South African 12-gauge combat shotgun with a revolving 12-round drum, designed by Hilton Walker in 1983.
Armstrong limit
The Armstrong limit, also known as Armstrong's line, is the altitude of about 62,000 ft where atmospheric pressure is so low that exposed body fluids boil at body temperature, making a pressure suit necessary for survival.
Armstrong process
The Armstrong process is a continuous chemical process that produces titanium powder by reducing titanium tetrachloride with liquid sodium, developed by International Titanium Powder of Illinois.
Armstrong Siddeley
Armstrong Siddeley was a British engineering company, based in Coventry, that built luxury motor cars from 1919 to 1960 while making aero engines as its principal business.