ADJECTIVE
- equipped with armor heavy enough to provide protection against fire from light arms
How To Use lightly armoured In A Sentence
- Those marines were in a lightly armoured vehicle when it hit the bomb, flipped into the air and exploded in a fireball.
- Cargo helicopters are heavier models capable of carrying 60 troops, lightly armoured vehicles, or underslung loads such as artillery and munitions.
- Battlecruisers are the size of battleships but more lightly armoured, so they have the speed of a cruiser.
- Lightly armoured and equipped with lance and hand weapon , horseman excel at harassing enemy flanks.
- This has found its modern format in "slatted armour" which can be seen on American Strykers (pictured above left) and British Warriors but, inevitably, cannot be applied to lightly armoured vehicles. We've been there before
- Furthermore, the bulk of soldiers over term have been killed while riding in unarmoured or lightly armoured vehicles, including three soldiers in British military Land Rovers (including the incident illustrated above). Curious…
- These lightly armoured skirmishers , drawn from the peasantry, are armed with javelins which they hurl at their foes to weaken their enemies and break up formations.
