Weapons that Made Britain: Armour (Part 7)

Historian Mike Loades shows the history behind the weapons that helped to forge Britain, as well as demonstrating their use.

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[Monkaylova]

Why is there only 86 people around the earth who has seen this video!?

[Kisk79]

@Monkaylova That's just a little below half of all my subscribers. I'm sure it'll pick up eventually.

[Poperol]

"arrow will bounce off that"

he looks so proud of his tempering skills.

[Caradepato2]

Great video. Thanks for posting, amigo. Ancient and medieval warfare has always been a fascination of mine, and it can be hard to find good documentaries.

[Hoot1SFD]

Even the English archer's thick bodkin arrowhead, designed specially to defeat full plate armor, was utterly useless against the new Milanese suits. There's nothing more terrifying. If only the Italian knights hadn't started pillaging the English rear positions and actually supported the main French force, this might have been a major French victory.

[jgn69]

i really like documentarys like that it is inspirering :)

[Aidz82]

@Monkaylova Its around 11,351 at this time. Not bad for a year.

[Warlords0602]

@NICKarrowman You are right, those Italian mercenaries are more likely to be porcuepined by something like 50 arrows on the breast plate (Brirtish bowman were trained to fire together as small teams to take out cavs one by one in close range). Actually a lot of Italian got killed that day, but still there were some lucky ones that got through the arrows and became wolves in sheep. The longbow is understated in this programme to make the armor a hero of the battle.

[Assaultwarfare]

Tempered Steel, so thats how is gonna work

[NICKarrowman]

@NoOne3234 Well, I'm not a physicist and I will certainly not challenge people who are on their knowledge. But I know that the heavy english warbow is espescially effective for shooting heavy arrows, which other bows, yes, also composite bows, would fail to shoot effectively. This is the big plus of the warbow, in my opinion, in addition to it being cheaper (well, at least 600 years ago yew staves were cheap^^).

[NoOne3234]

At least not for infantry archers.

[NoOne3234]

@NoOne3234 Proponents of Asian bows will say that English war bows are inferior due to shape and material. If we keep the draw length and final force constant, recurving the bow or adding static bridges will cause the slope of the force-distance plot to level out after a certain point in the draw. This results in more energy being stored, but this is countered by a decrease in release efficiency. The shape of the longbow wasn’t inferior to that of its Turkish/mongol counterparts.

[NoOne3234]

@NICKarrowman For a given draw length and weight, I find it hard to believe that a slight bend at the middle will alter the energy stored in a bow significantly. (A slight bend in the middle will likely not affect the force-distance plots for the draw, which should be fairly linear for that type of bow. Another way of looking at this is that a very small fraction of the bows energy will be stored in the stiffer center even if it does bend full compass.)