He’s better protected than most modern soldiers are today.
We used to outfit those who pledged themselves to fight for this country with gambeson, mail, and plate.
Now what do we give them? Nylon?
We have fallen far indeed.
mail doesn’t stop a bullet
all it does is weigh you down which severely increases your chance of being hit by a bullet
even if it stops the bullet it doesn’t stop the force of the bullet and that’s going to hurt you more than if it lodged in you because your entire torso or arm or w/e will absorb the force instead of one area of your body
and so you will get a shit ton of internal bleeding, broken bones, etc. and probably die of shock
so in summation chainmail sucks and soldiers shouldn’t wear it because it’s no longer 1542
WRONG!!!
This isn’t a videogame. Maille does not cause its wearers to incur a 15% penalty to speed. A fit man can jump, jog, and sprint in a maille hauberk.
If bullets had the force to break bones if spread over a large area, they would inflict those injuries upon the person who discharged the firearm they came from.
Newton’s third law. The force applied by a bullet is also applied to the gunman.
Chainmail is awesome, and the fact that we no longer require our military to supply our brave troops with it aught to be a source of national shame.
cybersmith you tremendously dumb motherfucker have you even considered for a second the reason that armies abandoned chainmail and plate armor
Budget cuts?
Ease of logistics?
Maintenance costs?
Lack of value placed upon the lives of service members?
All of the above, I suspect.
Because mail doesn’t stop bullets.
Then we should start wars with non-bullet using people!
Heck, Isis and Al-Qaida likely wouldn’t have access to advanced firearm technology like smokeless gunpowder, rifled barrels, and (if news reports are to be believed) self-loading weapons if our allies in The Land Of The Eagle didn’t keep arming them via the oil-barons of the Gulf.
Hahahahahahahaha I’m going to get booze like right the fuck now.
