| Congress, Federal Research Division, Library of 2004 | The earliest material available in sufficient quantities for armouring ships was iron, wrought or cast |
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| Westport, Conn: Praeger Security International | Gulf military forces in an era of asymmetric wars |
9044 2 6,715,000,000 72,000 20,000 92,000 1.
5| While cast iron has never been used for naval armour, it did find a use in land fortifications, presumable | Middle East contemporary survey : volume XV, 1991 |
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| The Persian Gulf States : post-war issues | 4349 3 14,375,000,000 65,000 0,000 65,000 0 |
Cordesman, Saudi Arabia Enters the Twenty-first Century: The military and international.
4| Iron armour was a type of naval armour used on warships and, to a limited degree, fortifications | 8353 6 730,000,000 15,500 112,500 127,500 1 |
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| 3865 4 5,200,000,000 15,500 31,000 46,500 1,4268 5 1,930,000,000 12,000 0,000 12,000 1 | The New York Times, 14 May 2012 |
The move represents a rare public rift between members of the GCC, an economic and political union aimed at fostering better ties between the oil-rich Arab states straddling the Persian Gulf.
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