Armor Knights were much, much easier than you think Bashny.Net

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Many movies and television shows depict incorrect knights in armor as a clumsy armored shambling zombies. Even worse, a detachment of knights often shown as "cannon fodder" for any hero (or heroine) with a sword or a bow. But the real armor was not so heavy and cumbersome, as it seems, and it was incredibly difficult to pierce.

Even heavy armor, typically weighing about 23 kg, were much heavier than the modern soldier's backpack. Gunsmiths were exceptionally good at what he does: steel armor or chain mail, they cover their customers, surprisingly allowed to move freely.

A number of current research subject, untrained as a knight, was able to show good results. In the video below you can see an adult an armored medievalist, jump off a horse and jump back on it with little difficulty. Without a doubt a trained warrior, who often wear armor all the time, would have shown much better.



In addition, in contrast to said backpack, warrior armor made almost invulnerable to most weapons of the time.

Swords? Simple Mail can stop most attacks with the sword. And in combination with soft leather clothing underneath chainmail it was enough to soften the blows that would kill a human.

Most of the arrows and armor could not penetrate. Medieval writers noticed that the knights returning from battle, so absurdly covered with arrows that look like porcupines, but were unharmed.



Knight's armor were so well protected that NASA developed space suits for the program "Apollo", mimicking the design of armor that they are studying in the British Museum. Prior to that, the idea of ​​NASA spacesuits is a box with sleeves. Medieval armor saved the first astronauts on the moon landing in something not much better than the costumes for Halloween.

via factroom.ru