WTF I always wondered how "some pads" were considered armor. I never knew they had metal plates overlapping inside of them, that's awesome
How the fuck am I always learning so much cool shit on this site.
It's like the equivalent to the European brigandine which a lot of pop culture mistakes for simple padded armor when it was that plus sheets of metal.
after 1700 they actually made fake versions that looked like that but with paper for ceremonial positioms, since the guns made the brigandine obsolete
yeah, it's a type of brigandine, honestly one of the coolest types of armor out there (and possibly the origin of "studded leather" in fantasy RPGs, from people seeing pictures of just the outside and not realizing the studs are actually rivets holding metal plates in place on the inside)
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I challenge you to a duel on the battlefield, ROTK style.
this is the cadillac of premodern personal protection. from the Yuan to the Qing chinese soldiers were wearing essentially this, a hot 400 years. european good plate armor had a heyday of ~200 give or take
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
