 In our last video, we constructed a form of body armor supposedly worn by the armies of Alexander the Great. In contrast with other common metal armors of the era, this armor was constructed by layers of linen, glued together by animal fat, providing a much lighter and less restrictive protection. In this video, we're putting to the test and throwing every weapon we've made at it, and see how well it actually holds up against them, and then testing the limits of this technology to see how this type of armor would stand up against the modern weaponry. But first, a message from today's sponsor. Oh no, Andy! Our Colve Split Bluetooth 2-in-1 Water-Resistant Speaker System! This paired set of super-portable Bluetooth speakers offer 360-degree surrounding stereo, ensuring optimal sound for your environment. Connect it with your smartphone, tablet, or computer using Bluetooth 4.2, then sit back and enjoy. It's powerful subwoofer, delivers superior sound quality, and it can operate for up to 7 hours on a single battery charge, and have a 32-foot working range. It also has a water-resistant rating of IPX7. Separated, they offer left and right stereo sound, or combined can offer 360-degree surround sound effect. So check out the Colve Split Bluetooth stereo speaker system now, using our discount code htme65 and get 65% off. First up, let's assemble all the weapons we have. Then to test it, we have the lino thorax we made with 20 layers of linen. And then, if we make it through that, Lauren put together an extra thick test square that's 100 layers thick. Lauren also found a brave volunteer to try out a little miniature lino thorax and see if that would end up handling it in the end. All right, let's suit up and start testing this thing out. Oh, thank you. All right, so we have the lino...lino. Lino. Is it lino? Yeah. I was wrong. No. Lino. It's lino. Lino. Yeah. Yeah. Lino. I'm second guessing everything. All right. The lino thorax we put together and now send it to the test and see what it can resist. Basically, we're going to throw everything we've made and battle test it. First, the axes. What did he do to you? He's wronged me. Think it would have broken his spine, but it didn't pierce. Wow. It doesn't pierce it at all. It bounces. Lots of force impact being absorbed, but no penetration. Next, I'm slashing the copache. Leave. Oh, it's a gash. It's a gash. I went through quite a few layers. All the way? Not all the way. Yeah, it's like four layers to spare. Just thick enough. Just try and smite them. Whoa. Holy s***. Did you get them, Andy? No, so we got a few layers there. Did the job. Bruised, but not beaten. Yeah, I think it protect seems to do a good job. Definitely made some holes, but nothing went through. Still one piece. Now to mark on them. Then some more traditional bronze-y swords that were primarily used for thrusting. See if we got anything. Lift up the skirt. Did it make it through? Yeah. Seven of them twice. I think this is the first one that definitely punctured. This one, I think, just bounced off. I believe they say it was mostly for protection against slashing and arrows. So actually standing up against a full thrust is a little bit beyond his expectations. And even metal doesn't hold up perfectly. Perfectly well against that. Confirming a lot of beliefs about this. Excuse me, man. I don't feel anything. Broke a hole, but it didn't go through the actual landing. Are you doing another one? Sure. The hole. The puncture ones. Still didn't go through. It still didn't go through? No. That's crazy. I never punctured it, but it did put in enough pressure to definitely crack some ribs. I think he felt that one. The hard surface of the mannequin potentially makes it easier to penetrate. So we also tried testing each over a soft archery target as well. Yeah. Nothing. I don't know. You want to try it? Oh, yeah? Well, I guess that's bronze for you. The main actual weapon of the Bronze Age is spear. Let's give that a shot now. String all of our weapons. I'm going to grab some duct tape. I don't know if this says the quality of the line of thorax or the lack of quality in my actual weapons. Put a little band aid on this. Good as new. The spear does a job. Now some projectiles. First up, the Adeladal. Yeah, still bounces right off. Let's try bow. Now off the bundle bow and flat bow. And... Why? Let's try again. Ouch. I can't do it. Try the actual bow and arrow I made and hope it doesn't blow up in my face. Let's see if your glasses is on. Let's hope they won't lose an eye. The arrow. Return to nature. And go through. Again. Tell which hitch is which. He lives for now. It seems to have bounced right off. My bow is a little underpowered. Later we're going to find a more modern bow and see what handles against that. But so far it's actually pretty good. I think I broke it. I'm so glad it snatches me. Doink. Not much is better. You really doinked it. Really doinked it. My tree! Let me get the hose. See, do that with your crocs. Taps seems to have a variety of different weapons and actually stood pretty good. If you find out, it is flammable. That is a way to take it out. Kind of a slow burn. Basically a pig fat candle. The believer is mostly for protection against slashing and arrows and it stood pretty well against that. So the one thing it didn't stand up against was actual stabbing with the sword or spear. Pretty impressed. I don't know if it's up to par with actual metal armor but it's definitely pretty good protection. Next we're going to kind of test it a little bit further with some more modern bows and take it to gun range and see if it's even bulletproof. So the two bows we made are a little bit lighter on the draw way. See how well the Linothorax stands against a modern bow and arrow. Clean all the way through into the chest. He's dead. Didn't stop a modern arrow. Next we'll try the 100 layer test square we did. See if that'll stop it. All right, looks like that stopped it. Made a decent way through but let's see if we can see how deep we got. Let's fill it in there. I'm going to use it one, two, well 30 layers to stop it. I can't get it out. There we go. So it's less than halfway through. So let's up the ante and try some guns. Shooting isn't complicated. It's a matter of lining up the sights and then having a solid grip and a smooth press of the trigger every time. Clean target, bullseye, dead center. And if you shot a perfect one inch group right below that triangle, I'd be like three potato oles. You guys have the potential to become gun fighters right here. I'm not, I'm not kidding. And my name is Michael Nielsen with warfathertraining.com and I have a YouTube channel Oden Warfather. So you guys reached out to me just because I'm a self-professed ballistics enthusiast and a professional firearms instructor. So we're going to shoot a couple of different projectiles into it. First of all, we have a 22 long rifle, which is just a lead ball. Nine millimeter full metal jacket, which is target ammo. Then finally we have federal HST, which is law enforcement or self-defense ammunition. It's designed to mushroom. So we'll see how they perform. All right, first we're going to start with a 22 long rifle. We're at about a distance of 10 yards here. Let's go check it out. Look, the jugs, the jugs didn't move. If we look at the back of the armor, there it is. The projectile was stopped. So nice job, guys. Way to go. That's solid. That's totally impressive. Pig fat and linen. So next we have a CZ-75 nine millimeter, shooting just the full metal jacket target ammunition. Well, that is what did it. This is the back. Here's the bump from the 22 projectile. So it just went right through. Nice. So finally we're going to use block 19 nine millimeter. I'm interested to see if it'll open up and penetrate or cause any kind of back face kind of like deformation. Entrance looks whole, looks the same, but the exit is quite different. And actually look at this. Oh, wow. Saved some of the projectile here from the water. Is that how? No, it's the water cooled it off nicely. Don't look, buddy. I'm shooting. It's 62 grain soft point 223 hunting ammo. And this is just AR-15 rifle. Okay. So it works. All right, let's go check out the target. It really kind of shredded up. So I think this was the entry. Yep, it is. And then it actually caused a lot of like hydraulic shock kind of like blew it backwards when it exited. Okay. Well, hopefully our watermelon survives. We hardly knew you watermelon. Hopefully his little thorax protects him. I don't think you made it. Anybody know first aid? I think I hit right in the center. His belt held up. Yeah. Wear his eyes. Kids do not try this at home. Get the glue. I shot him exactly where you wanted me to right above the belt in the center of his vest. I think you need more pig fat. Anybody mentions finding googly eyes? Let me know. Alexander could only go out in a blaze of glory. So we put to the test and found it was pretty effective against a lot of bronze age weaponry. And while the little thorax itself with only 20 layers wasn't the most effective against modern weapons, the same concept applies to a little bit thicker with 100 layers. Well, it's actually bulletproof. It's actually sufficient to stop modern arrows. And even a 22, which was a pretty comparable to light Kevlar. However, because we use pig fat, it is flammable. Some people think you used some form of hide glue instead of actual fat, which would probably be a little bit more effective and less flammable. But what's fun in that? Thanks for watching and thank you to all of our supporters on Patreon. 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