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Does this mean I won't get a cheap titanium suit of armour? Could me a game changer for HEMA.
by gadders 1y ago
Does this mean I won't get a cheap titanium suit of armour? Could me a game changer for HEMA.
- bluGill 1y agoYou can get one if you are willing to pay for it. It means there is no reason to think that suit of armour will ever be cheap, and this advance while potentially lowering the costs won't lower it enough. Then again iron suits of armour are not cheap (though cheaper than titanium), and are mostly useless in the real world - but people have them. If you have the money I won't object you to getting one.
- gadders 1y agoI often wonder how much we could improve on historic items like suits of armour using modern materials and manufacturing.
- bluGill 1y agoLook at what the modern military uses. They face the same issues, even if bullets are somewhat different from arrows or swords, you still want to protect the same areas of the body again forces, and the same issues of weight, heat, maneuverability and such vs protection. While the exact compromise changes over time, any armorer in history will understand the compromises and why the modern military armour looks different. Which is to say I'd expect a modern suit of armour to be made of kevlar.
- gadders 1y agoWhat I meant was, how much better would a modern version of medieval plate armour be if made from modern materials, vs armour made at the time for medieval combat.
- bell-cot 1y agoYep, nope. BTW - might HEMA have any safety regs, for equipment that could become a Class D fire? There might be hazmat issues transporting such armour by air.
- eternityforest 1y agoIf you're going to use modern tech, why not just go all the way and do fiberglass with thin steel faces or something like that?