Lobsters and Walking Steel Coffins – WW1 Armor



An Overview of WW1 Armor

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Many Wars Ago 1970
Ned Kelly 2003
Wonder Woman 2017
Ned Kelly 1970
Joyeux Noel 2005
A Very Long Engagement 2004
Passchendaele 2008
Sergeant York 1941
Battlefield I (Video Game)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003
Futurama (TV Series)
Sucker Punch
Beneath Hill 60
All Quiet on the Western Front 1940
The King 2019
Anzacs 1985
A Fistful of Dollars 1964

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46 thoughts on “Lobsters and Walking Steel Coffins – WW1 Armor”

  1. Funny about the increase in injuries – a very similar thing happened in World War II where they looked at planes that had come back from a mission and put increased protection on the places that were full of bullet holes. Forgetting that these were the ones that came back, and they should have protected the places full of holes that the planes who were shot down had. Go that's a clumsy sentence never mind.😁
    There was also some armour that had tiny wheels that you got yourself in and crawled along behind it – like a tiny backless tank. Of course you couldn't see much and crawling doesn't do much for your ability to cross ground either.

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  2. I think you missed an important note, especially when you were mentioning that "soldiers didn't like the armour". It still hurt! Even if the plate managed to stop the bullet, you're still receiving all that force, just a little spread out.

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  3. Moving in the no man's land wearing this is just impossible. Anyway each country involved in this war tried similar stuffs and we can say the helmets (that were not much in use before WW1) are also from the same need of individual protection. They also used shields, and you can see an accurate use of them in a latvian movie (if memory serves me well).

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  4. I have a feeling the effect of this armour may have been more psychological than protection. I would imagine it would be easier to convince someone to do sentry duty if you offered them this

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  5. In boardwalk empire the vet who lost his eye shows a metal face mask that a german sniper would use in WWI. It looks pretty limiting in FOV but it armors everywhere on the head but the eyes

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  6. Question for the comments, could a type of metal armor make a comback in the world of today? from my uneducated glance, a lot of richer nations put in a lot of efford too give their soldiers atleast some type of kevlar armor. however ive also seen a steady increase on armor for riot cops, here atleast they whent from reflector jackets and willow wood shields too looking like something strait out of cyberpunk (i dont know what its made from though). would it be efficiant in a world today too carry something like chainmail against stab wounds, nose guards instead of vizors and steel plated fingers on gauntlets? logisticly, effectively and culturaly yes or no and why ^^

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  7. Armour had some use in WW2 as well. USA designed padded flak jackets for bomber crews for protection against shapnels ( and they are direct precursors to modern bulletproof vests ), and soviet union ( yes, soviet union of all countries ! ) used metal breastplate for it's assoult engeneer units. Apparently it was even fairly reliable at stopping pistol and mp40 rounds (tho tbh, 9×19 parabellum isn't the beefiest round in existance )

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  8. Knowing what I know about ballistics and the calibers used in WW1, any long guns would probably punch straight through any armor that wasn’t absurdly heavy. That being said WW1 diesel punk power armor would be awesome

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