02-19-2016, 10:01 PM
(01-29-2016, 05:38 AM)Dan Howard Wrote: According to Aldrete's figures, his magical glued linen construction provides better protection than a similar weight of hardened steel. It should be noted that some very well funded multi-national companies tried for decades to come up with body armour that provided better protection than hardened steel. Every combination of fibre and glue known to man was exhaustively tested and they came up with nothing until the invention of aramid (kevlar).Well, as one of the co-authors of the book "Reconstructing Ancient Linen Body Armor," I can respond by saying that either the "well funded multi-national companies" that you speak of were either highly incompetent or your information is wrong.
Scott B.
