What is under armor made of?

Answer 1

The under armor is usually made of the moisture-wicking synthetic fabric. One of the advantages of the under armor is that they help in odor control and wick the moisture from the human bodies.

Answer 2

AnswerDepends on the type of armor you are referring too.. Medieval period armor was made by smelting iron with carbon to make steel. steel being the strongest metal of the period. So nobles fashioned their armor out of steel (if they could afford it). Before that they used bronze, copper, iron, and even animal hides! So lets re-cap, Plate-mail was made out of many different plates of cold-hard steel. underneath that they also wore what is called Chain-mail which is tiny little rings of iron or steel, linked together to form a kind of "metal blanket" ..hope this helped you get an "A" AnswerIn the most ancient times and prehistoric times, armor was mainly made out of leather, with wood or bone as backing where needed. Such armor continued to be used nearly to the end of the Middle Ages, as it was both cheap and relatively light. It could stop an arrow from many types of bows, and deflect a blow, if the blow was not heavy or well aimed.

Brass and bronze were used as armor, starting in ancient times. Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc, and bronze of copper and tin, with many variations and overlappings. These alloys allowed a much stronger armor, but they were very expensive and not available for everyone.

With the Iron Age came iron armor. It was not better than bronze, except that it could be made harder by a person who really knew what he was doing, and it was no where near as strong as bronze (hardness does not equal strength; diamond is harder than steel, but strike it with a hammer and it will shatter). Iron was used primarily because it was cheap, so larger numbers of people could afford to use it.

There was a lot of development of armor alloys and construction techniques through the time. The practice of alloying carbon, often in the form of charcoal, with iron to make steel began early on, but was not understood well enough to be reliable except in the hands of masters. Carburizing steel, a practice that could make the outside hard and the inside softer but stronger, was invented during the ninth or tenth century.

Early armor tended to be solid. During the ancient times, mail was invented, and consisted of interlocking iron rings. It was backed by leather, and provided protection while allowing for movement and being light. Splints, long pieces of iron that ran along limbs in parallel, were used in some places. Scale armor was also used. Plate armor was a relatively late development, and was both expensive and heavy. It also did not work all that much better than other types - it was certainly very effective defending against swords, but it did not protect against arrows from long bows or cross bows all that well. An army made up of men who had practiced with long bows was very hard to defeat and very cheap to put into the field. Its effectiveness against armor can be seen in the battles of the Hundred Years' War.

Armor fell out of style during the later parts of the Renaissance. It was too expensive, too heavy, and war had turned more and more away from edged weapons and more and more to projectiles that could penetrate armor. Muskets penetrated somewhat better than arrows from long bows, and though they were more expensive than bows, their projectiles were less expensive, and their users did not need to train as much.

Warfare went through a period without armor, except for such as was on the side of a ship, and this consisted of a foot or two of hard wood.

During the first year First World War, soldiers often died from head wounds caused by falling bomb fragments and rocks that had been blown out of the ground. Steel helmets came into use. Tanks were covered with steel, as were ships (which had been made with iron cladding since the 1860s).

During the second half of the twentieth century, an understanding developed that interwoven threads of plastic such as kevlar could provide good protection against fragments and bullets. Weight for weight, kevlar is five times as stong as steel, and a thick pad of it distributes blows. Tanks had armor made of new materials, also, such as ceramic and reactive armor. Reactive armor is armor that explodes to prevent penetration of piercing projectiles or shaped charges.

Nuclear bombs made it necessary to protect people and equipment from gamma rays. This meant the addition of lead and depleted uranium to armor. (Depleted uranium is only very slightly radioactive, but it stops gamma rays really well.)

Answer 3

It depends on the kind of armor. Armor for medieval knights was purely steel shaped to a human body. Bullet proof armor is normally made of kevlar.