Destructive Testing of Armor With Early Arms

[Alden]

I'm betting no-one here has seen this and that everyone here will love it.

Magyar said...

Now this will be fun for sure. A fellow shooter is a member in a reenactor group. They are reenacting the mounted tactics of the Hun-Avar warriors of the 5th-6th century. They are focusing on recreating their lamellar armour. First they made some models from modern materials to test, and they asked me organize a shooting test with various weapons. Well I was glad to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSxFY917UH8

 

[Grumpa]

:grin: :thumbsup:

 

[spudnut]

What a fun day at the range, Would have liked to see buck and ball and a blunderbus

 

[Wes/Tex]

Interesting test adn proves how firearms changed the battlefield from their introduction.

 

[pargent]

:grin: :thumbsup:

 

[Zonie]

It was interesting and I liked the clothing most of the people were wearing.

It did not test a battlefield weapon that would have been around during the 5th/6th century though.

I wonder what a big burly dude with a 7 foot long steel tipped pike could have done to the armor? :hmm:

 

[nhmoose]

It was interesting and I liked the clothing most of the people were wearing.

It did not test a battlefield weapon that would have been around during the 5th/6th century though.

I wonder what a big burly dude with a 7 foot long steel tipped pike could have done to the armor? :hmm:

Knocked him down and crushed his head with his feet???? :hmm: :wink:

 

[Alden]

Wasn't the Hun bow, what they first fired, supposed to be a contemporary of that armor? There were no guns in the 5th/6th C. CE

 

[tenngun]

It was interesting and I liked the clothing most of the people were wearing.

It did not test a battlefield weapon that would have been around during the 5th/6th century though.

I wonder what a big burly dude with a 7 foot long steel tipped pike could have done to the armor? :hmm:

I recall a book on the history of guns written in the '50s that said tacticts were based on the idea that even the beast armor could be defeated if hit long enough and hard enough with a heavy enough weapon

 

[Nativearizonan]

The armor of the Spanish conquistadors was reportedly penetrated by stone tipped atlatl darts used by the Aztecs. These were a bit heavier than the arrows they were using in the video. That would have been an interesting weapon to try.