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# Armour worn by First World War tank crews as protection from armour splinters
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/etot-element-dospekhov-pokhozhii-na-snariazhenie-chatlanina-nosili-v-gody-pervoi-mirovoi/
- Published: 2017-01-08T07:55:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:59:35.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Museums, Science, Humour

This piece of armour, which looks like the kit of a Chatlanian, was worn during the First World War. And it is only part of a tank crewman's full equipment, which also included a proper chain-mail coat. Why tank crews in particular? Without such armour, under machine-gun fire the entire crew of a tank would have been turned into mincemeat: imagine that the armour of the first tanks flaked away on the inside and struck the crew like shrapnel.