Armored warship/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Armored warship.

A naval vessel with metal armor (naval) to provide passive protection against enemy gunfire; obsolete against modern weapons but dominant from the mid-19th to mid-20th centuries, when aircraft-delivered weapons, and then guided missiles, made quantum leaps in lethality