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Jun 21, 2019 · But it is not as if the bodkin arrow merely has ‘+1 armor penetration’ given that a full plate harness suddenly makes the arrow far more useless than the sword or the axe (which can at least disorient the target and – in the case of the sword – thrust through vulnerable areas).
Apr 20, 2017 · "Piercing power is effectively the same as range." No, it isn't. In your example, bullet penetration is a function of the bullet velocity, bullet shape and composition. For an arrow, penetration is a function of the arrow's velocity and the type of arrowhead. –
- Now as a caveat I must warn you that the question you are asking is pretty specific but I'm going to give you a general idea of the efficacy of Fre...
- There have been many attempts at experiments over the last couple of decades as "experimental history" has gained respectability, but, it's very ha...
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- Well, first of all a real longbow can penetrate steel armor, as long as the arrowhead is made of forged, hardened steel. Real longbows were made...
- Piercing power is effectively the same as range. That is, you can have bulletproof plate glass that a standard pistol fires into. No problem. Now,...
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- I would also suggest one thing. Whether or not longbows could penetrate plate armour, there are several accounts of knights or nobles being killed...
- The research done and performed into this subject is vast but as with all historic theories we approach it from a modern or 'present' though proce...
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Aug 11, 2018 · Alan Williams tested a bodkin arrow with an 18 degree point in which it needed 80 Joules to penetrate the mail and an additional 40 J to penetrate the padded jack underneath (and still go far enough to at least injure the wearer).
Oct 28, 2005 · Re: The Bodkin Arrow vs. Plate. Postby Shane Smith » Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:11 am. You needn't penetrate the armour of a mounted knight if you can penetrate the hide of the horse he's charging on <img src="/forum/images/icons/wink.gif" alt="" />. Shane Smith~ARMA Forum Moderator.
Even quilted armor can greatly reduce the depth of penetration by certain arrow types (including being very effective at stopping bodkins blunted by maille, which gives us the use of thin padding under maille in the 13th century becoming seemingly popular), although quilted armor is probably not stopping penetration outright even by missile ...
Aug 14, 2015 · The curved broadhead did not penetrate but caused 0.3" of deformation of the metal. Results against plate armour of "minimum thickness" (1.2mm) were similar to the coat of plates, in that the needle bodkin penetrated to a shallow depth, the other arrows not at all.
