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Originally Posted by Catfish
Cardboard and egg cartons as armour. While the real thing was sold elsewhere to make Putin and his oligarchs rich..
And Russia calls Ukraine corrupt 
Almost feel sorry for russian soldiers. |
They are just too late, thats all. In the medieval, in either China or Japan there was a time when they ideed used - paper armour. A sheet of paper was folded several times until it had half the size of a handpalm. Now, many such scales were made, and even waxed/oiled, to help them resist a bit longer to rain, the only big enemy to this armor: water. Many such scales were made, and stitched together like European and Middle Eastern scaled armour made of metal and leather. Just that this was lighter, faster to make, and cheap, and did not exhaust with its weight the soldier wearing it. Surprise, surprise: this paper armour was EXTREMELY effective against sword strikes and arrow's tips! A fully swung blow with a sharp sword could not cut through it! Arrows as used in that time in that place could not penetrate it!