Mad Max armor
n.— «We never received the armored Humvees either. What we were given are what’s known throughout the army as Mad Max armor and, basically, they are these ill-fitting rusting steel plates that we were required to install on our vehicles.» —“War is hell, especially if you make public complaints about military” by Bill Katovsky San Francisco Chronicle (California) Aug. 28, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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