APCR (other)
APCR may refer to: * Armour-Piercing Composite Rigid - a type of armour piercing projectile * Association for Protection of Civil Rights - a non-governmental organization * Activated protein C resistance Activated protein C resistance (APCR) is a hypercoagulability (an increased tendency of the blood to clot) characterized by a lack of a response to activated protein C (APC), which normally helps prevent blood from clotting excessively. This resul ...

Armour-Piercing Composite Rigid
Armour-piercing ammunition (AP) is a type of projectile designed to penetrate either body armour or vehicle armour. From the 1860s to 1950s, a major application of armour-piercing projectiles was to defeat the thick armour carried on many warships and cause damage to their lightly-armoured interiors. From the 1920s onwards, armour-piercing weapons were required for anti-tank warfare. AP rounds smaller than 20 mm are intended for lightly-armoured targets such as body armour, bulletproof glass, and lightly-armoured vehicles. As tank armour improved during World War II, anti-vehicle rounds began to use a smaller but dense penetrating body within a larger shell, firing at very high muzzle velocity. Modern penetrators are long rods of dense material like tungsten or depleted uranium (DU) that further improve the terminal ballistics. History The late 1850s saw the development of the ironclad warship, which carried wrought iron armour of considerable thickness. This armour w ...
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Association For Protection Of Civil Rights
Association for Protection of Civil Rights is a non-governmental organization which was established in 2006 for the protection of human rights of the exploited-deprived sections of the society. It is composed of advocate, social activities and grassroots paralegal A paralegal, also known as a legal assistant, or paralegal specialist is a professional who performs tasks that require knowledge of legal concepts but not the full expertise of a lawyer with a license to practice law. The market for paralegals i ... social workers. The association is currently working in seventeen states Object * A plan to educate and inform the public about their civil rights. * A help line to counsel and advise the deprived and the downtrodden. * A training programme for social activities. * An effort to protest and safeguard the legal rights of oppressed. * A scheme to provide legal defense to the victims of injustice. * A programme to eradicate oppression and injustice from the Indian scene. ...
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