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glacis (fortification slope) MIL
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The hull upper front armour (glacis plate) thickness was increased to 90 mm and the turret front armour thickness was increased to 120 mm.
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The soil is composed by gravels and conglomerates of detritic coverages, glacis and erosion of hillsides.
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The upper glacis plate has two track segments, while the lower glacis plate can be fitted with steel screens or a mine roller.
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The back plate too was hexagonal but more reclined; it was at its underside joined to a lower back glacis plate, both forming a wedge.
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The glacis gives extra protection to the fort and was designed to blend the fort into the landscape.
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It folds back onto the glacis plate when not in use.
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However, more and more swarmed on to the glacis between the cliff and the defenders, funnelling into the gap between the kraal and laager.
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The driver's vision flap was reduced to a plain square flap with rounded lower corners, in line with the glacis plate.
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Furthermore, some street names hint at the presence of fortifications in times past, for example when words such as wall or glacis occur.
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The turret includes a phased array radar on the front glacis for measuring the muzzle velocity of each round fired.
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