Rock Armor

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I do use rock armor, my rock hard muscles XDDDDDDDD

>>31840400
>ceramic plates

>What is a Hesco barrier?
>What is a sandbag?

No reason to carry around rocks as body armor when steel and ceramic plates to stop rifle rounds exist.

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>>31840422
yea but you must fit the paleo armor kvlt, prehistoric gun fights and ect

>>31840422
I'm not saying in modern times, I'm saying for that period in time where no one could really figure out some reliable armor to stop bullets, 1400 to 1900 or so

>>31840428
Also seems like prehistoric groups or native americans etc could have made something like this very easily, but instead they fumbled around trying to loop bone together and mesh leather together

>>31840420
>first used in Desert Storm
OP has a point, and, I have no clue. Rock armor. I'm sold.

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rock armor is not aesthetic enough

WE NEED ANSWERS

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>>31840400
>not too heavy

>>31840635
>too heavy for some musketmen to throw on before marching to battle
No, not really

>>31840436
Have you ever tried to shove a leaf bladed spear or slice a rapier through a few layers of rawhide and some bone?

>Of course not you dont even know what rawhide is
Effective against everything but bullets at point blank. Was the soft body armor of the day. Europeans used shit like that too before guns were popular and a while after.

>>31840400
i found this vid useful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hojknlRlQUc

never seen any one talk about the dust cover/safty thing before

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why you mumblin n stumblin>>31840678

>>31840669
You have a point but again, why didnt Eurasians from 1400-1900 use this kind of stuff? Say you were a soldier in 1750, about to meet another army and you were in rank and file on the front lines, why wouldn't you want to make some kind of rock protection? Looking at the video it only took 2 slabs to stop a 7.62x39, and thats about as powerful as a musket was back then

>>31840687
i duno

is ther ea vi deo like dat f or da m16?

>>31840400
>Not too heavy

Have you ever tried to pick up a big rock, numbnuts?

>>31840400
Rock is heavy as fuck.

>>31840932
>>31841033
From the video it didn't look too heavy at all, just some lava rock which is pretty light. We're not talking granite here

itt OP advertises his youtube channel

>>31841081
pumice is very light.
It's also extremely weak - you can crush it with your fist, and if you were wearing pumice armour, any projectile would go straight through and induce shitloads of carcinogenic volcanic ash into the wound, so even if the wound is non-fatal you're fucked in the long run. Great fucking job

>>31840694
>what is a buff coat, standard European infantry uniform until the early 1700s?

>>31840400
Because ancient people were smart enough to know that rock armor is a tucking stupid idea.

>>31841108
that's not pumice
>>31841112
not bulletproof
>>31841116
why?

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>>31840932
Knights armor weighed up to 110 pounds. Bet those rocks didn't weigh even 20

>>31840646
>charging across a muddy field
>while people are shooting you
>wearing a goddamn shirt made out of granite

>>31841210
implying that doesn't sound awesome as fuck

Went outside and picked up a rock. It's not that heavy.

Just a bit heavier than a steel plate.

>>31841227
k
now ducttape it to your chest and roll around holding a broom for the next six hours

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>>31841230
were talking about whether or not this would be okay to use in an old time battle not at cubscout camp

>>31841227
lol ok now strap it with duct tape and put some pennies on it and run around in it

>>31840400
Havel pls go.

>>31841227
Sounds scientific. Maybe if you find food on the ground we will have you tackle world hunger next.

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>>31840400

>>31841332
dude the ground IS food

>>31841340
wtf why doesnt africa just use rock armor
wtf why doesnt africa just eat ground

>>31840694
Muskets were often cold loaded to save powder, especially when volley firing at range.
> Say you were a soldier in 1750, about to meet another army and you were in rank and file on the front lines
Well if you're in an army, it's up to what your commander said you could have, you rascalious civilian, you.

Breastplates gained popularity in the 1800s with the development of shrapnel, however.

>>31840694
Two WW2 tank armour thick slabs on top of each managed to mostly stop a bullet, while being annihilated in the process, sending shrapnel flying all around.

The weight simply isn't in any way justified by the protection offered. Iron is a superior material by far, and even there most people reached the conclusion that the weight necessary for decent protection stopped being worth it back in the late 17th century.

So feel free to strap a bag of rocks to your chest. But you've marched all night, your unit needs to be on top of that hill in a hurry, and there's a guy with a sword behind you who will make sure you either keep up or die trying.

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>>31840400

>>31843105
"i have the weirdest boner right now"

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>>31843105
>Hadji chastity belt

>>31840400

Isn't that what ceramic armor basically is?

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>this thread

Natural ceramics have poor tensile strength and fracture toughness

>>31840400
there is no rock out there that is strong and light. go throw some strong stone in a burlap bag and carry it around for 5 mins and tell me again how practical your idea is...

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>>31840428
Why would you even be asking....

Heh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Pipila

>>31840422
...Why aren't sand ballistic vests a thing?

>>31841194
What?! A full set of plate armor would weigh around 60 lb and even then it is spread out over your whole body.

>>31840416
>not your rock hard cock
Step up your game son.

>>31843888
Go fill 100 sandbags then get back to me.

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>>31840400
>not too heavy

Most rock that you could find in abundance that could be light enough to worn is too brittle to be practical armor. A good armor is not good do to it's hardness, it's good due to it's ability to deflect and/or absorb incoming blows. Rock is not flexible and too brittle. Also, trying to fashion armor our of rock would be a bitch. Other materials are just so much better.

>>31844458
Also before anybody says >plates plates are ceramic, not stone. OP implied armor made from rock along the lines of stuff like marble or granite.

>>31844377
It is, for the protection offered. Steel or similar metals offer much more efficient protection per pound of weight it adds.

>>31843105
Isn't that to protect them for the 72 virgins they believe in?

>>31844458
Flint would be the best naturally occurring rock material, it flakes instead of shattering. Obviously diamond armour if we want to get currazy, but it's no rock.

>>31840400
Too heavy and difficult to cut and shape

>>31844573
They problem with flint would be it could create sharp flakes when struck, and if those flakes get into any wounds inflicted your own armor will cause more harm than the weapon probably did.

>>31844584
Flack jack/anti spalling material

>>31840400
It's "en masse" and you're still using it wrong. Worst thread on /k/

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OP...are you describing stone walls?